Title: Extragalatic Star Cluster in NGC6872
Author: Gelys Trancho
Abstract:
Our recent work on the tidal tails of another merger remnant, 
NGC 3256 (Trancho et al 2007), has demonstrated that star clusters 
can form in this thus-far unexplored region of galaxies. NGC 6872 
is a natural target to follow up on our exciting results as our 
recent photometric study (Bastias et al 2004) of the tidal tails 
has hinted at a large population of star clusters there.  We will 
present the results of our spectroscopy measure on these cluster 
carrying on with GMOS-S in MOS mode. We will confirm the existence 
of this seemingly large population, as well as to derive each 
clusters' age, metallicity and extinction. All this  together  
will be used to search for correlations with galactocentric 
distance, which are predicted from galaxy merger models.