We present the internal velocity dispersions and spectral line indices for six Virgo ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies obtained from spectroscopy with the Keck II 10-m telescope. We use these results: 1) to compare the Virgo UCDs with the Fornax UCD population; 2) to compare UCDs with globular clusters (GCs) to determine if UCDs and the most luminous GCs are the same or distinct systems; 3) to further test the nucleated dwarf elliptical (dE,N) stripping hypothesis for UCD formation.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504289,
title = {The Origin of UCDs in the Virgo Cluster},
author = {E. A. Evstigneeva and M. D. Gregg and M. J. Drinkwater},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504289},
year = {2007}
}
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3 pages, 3 figures. To be published in the Proceedings IAUC198, 2005