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		| Paper: | 
		The evolution of groups and clusters | 
	 
	
		| Volume: | 
		209, Small Galaxy Groups, IAU Colloquium 174 | 
	 
	
		| Page: | 
		428 | 
	 
	
		| Authors: | 
		Gottlöber, S.; Klypin, A.; Kravtsov, A. V.; Turchaninov, V. | 
	 
	
	
		| Abstract: | 
		Using high resolution N -body simulations we study the formation and evolution of clusters and groups in a &Lambda CDM cosmological model. Groups of galaxies already form before z = 4. Merging of groups and accretion leads to cluster formation at z <&sim2. Some of the groups merge into large isolated halos. | 
	 
	
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