Intergalactic Globular Clusters
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We confirm and extend our previous detection of a population of intergalactic globular clusters in Abell 1185, and report the first discovery of an intergalactic globular cluster in the nearby Virgo cluster of galaxies. The numbers, colors and luminosities of these objects can place constraints on their origin, which in turn may yield new insights to the evolution of galaxies in dense environments.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0309602,
title = {Intergalactic Globular Clusters},
author = {Michael J. West and Patrick Cote and Henry C. Ferguson and Michael D. Gregg and Andres Jordan and Ronald O. Marzke and Nial R. Tanvir and Ted von Hippel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0309602},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, no figures. Talk presented at JD6, IAU General Assembly XXV, Sydney, Australia, July 2003, to appear in Highlights of Astronomy, Vol. 13