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Ages and structural and dynamical parameters of two globular clusters in the M81 group

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-05-31 v1

Abstract

GC-1 and GC-2 are two globular clusters (GCs) in the remote halo of M81 and M82 in the M81 group discovered by Jang et al. using the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) images. These two GCs were observed as part of the Beijing--Arizona--Taiwan--Connecticut (BATC) Multicolor Sky Survey, using 14 intermediate-band filters covering a wavelength range of 4000--10000 \AA. We accurately determine these two clusters' ages and masses by comparing their spectral energy distributions (from 2267 to 20000~{\AA}, comprising photometric data in the near-ultraviolet of the {\it Galaxy Evolution Explorer}, 14 BATC intermediate-band, and Two Micron All Sky Survey near-infrared JHKsJHK_{\rm s} filters) with theoretical stellar population-synthesis models, resulting in ages of 15.50±3.2015.50\pm3.20 for GC-1 and 15.10±2.7015.10\pm2.70 Gyr for GC-2. The masses of GC-1 and GC-2 obtained here are 1.772.04×1061.77-2.04\times 10^6 and 5.207.11×106 M5.20-7.11\times 10^6 \rm~M_\odot, respectively. In addition, the deep observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on the {\it HST} are used to provide the surface brightness profiles of GC-1 and GC-2. The structural and dynamical parameters are derived from fitting the profiles to three different models; in particular, the internal velocity dispersions of GC-1 and GC-2 are derived, which can be compared with ones obtained based on spectral observations in the future. For the first time, in this paper, the rhr_h versus MVM_V diagram shows that GC-2 is an ultra-compact dwarf in the M81 group.

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@article{arxiv.1705.08587,
  title  = {Ages and structural and dynamical parameters of two globular clusters in the M81 group},
  author = {Jun Ma and Song Wang and Zhenyu Wu and Tianmeng Zhang and Hu Zou and Jundan Nie and Zhiming Zhou and Xu Zhou and Xiyang Peng and Jiali Wang and Jianghua Wu and Cuihua Du and Qirong Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08587},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

MNRAS 468, 4513-4528 (2017), 16 pages, 9 figures and 11 tables