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We use Hubble Space Telescope archival images to measure central surface brightness profiles of globular clusters around satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. We report results for 21 clusters around the LMC, 5 around the SMC, and 4 around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Eva Noyola , Karl Gebhardt

This paper presents deep high quality photometry of globular cluster (GC) systems belonging to five early-type galaxies covering a range of mass and environment. Photometric data were obtained with the Gemini North and Gemini South…

The merger remnant NGC 1316 (Fornax A) is one of the most important objects regarding the investigation of merger-related processes. We use kinematical data of globular clusters (GCs) and the diffuse stellar light to investigate the global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-17 Tom Richtler , Michael Hilker , Brijesh Kumar , Lilia P. Bassino , Matias Gomez , Boris Dirsch

We present images of the recent galaxy merger NGC 3256 obtained with the WFPC2 of the Hubble Space Telescope in B and I filters. We show that there is a large population of more than 1,000 compact, bright blue objects in this galaxy within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Zepf , K. M. Ashman , J. English , K. C. Freeman , R. M. Sharples

I review what we have learned about the old stellar population of NGC 5128, the only large E galaxy close enough that we can currently observe individual stars as faint as the horizontal branch. Although its galaxy type is still a matter of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Gretchen L. H. Harris

Here we present HST/ACS imaging, in the B and I bands, of the edge-on Sb/Sc galaxy NGC 5170. Excluding the central disk region region, we detect a 142 objects with colours and sizes typical of globular clusters (GCs). Our main result is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Duncan Forbes , Lee Spitler , William Harris , Jeremy Bailin , Jay Strader , Jean Brodie , Soeren Larsen

We study the globular cluster (GC) systems in three representative fossil group galaxies: the nearest (NGC6482), the prototype (NGC1132) and the most massive known to date (ESO306-017). This is the first systematic study of GC systems in…

We present a second set of results from a wide-field photometric survey of the environs of Milky Way globular clusters. The clusters studied are NGC 1261, NGC 1851 and NGC 5824: all have data from DECam on the Blanco 4m telescope. NGC 5824…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 P. B. Kuzma , G. S. Da Costa , A. D. Mackey

We resolve stars of the nearest giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128 using VLT with FORS1 and ISAAC. We construct deep U, V and Ks color-magnitude and color-color diagrams in two different halo fields (in the halo and in the north-eastern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti , D. R. Silva , T. R. Bedding

The properties of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies are key to understanding the formation of globular cluster systems, and in particular in verifying scenarios in which globular cluster systems of larger galaxies formed (at least partly)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas H. Puzia , Markus Kissler-Patig , Jean P. Brodie , Linda L. Schroder

As the nearest accessible massive early-type galaxy, NGC 5128 presents an exceptional opportunity to measure dark matter halo parameters for a representative elliptical galaxy. Here we take advantage of rich new observational datasets of…

In this paper we present the results of a wide-field imaging study of the globular cluster (GC) system of the field S0 galaxy NGC 7457. To derive the global properties of the GC system, we obtained deep BVR images with the WIYN 3.5 m…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jonathan R. Hargis , Katherine L. Rhode , Jay Strader , Jean P. Brodie

We present radial surface brightness profiles for all five globular clusters in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, and for the four present members of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. These profiles are derived from archival Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Mackey , G. F. Gilmore

Recent high-resolution observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) reveal that star clusters of extraordinary luminosity and compactness are commonly found in a variety of starburst systems. There has been much speculation that these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko

An important test for models of galaxy formation lies in the metallicity distribution functions (MDFs) of spheroid stars and their globular clusters (GCs).We have compared the MDFs obtained from spectroscopy of the GCs and the star-by-star…

We present new catalogs of likely globular clusters (GCs) in 17 nearby spiral galaxies studied as part of the PHANGS-HST Treasury Survey. The galaxies were imaged in five broad-band filters from the near-ultraviolet through the $I$ band.…

We present the integrated mass profiles for a sample of ten nearby (z<=0.15), relaxed galaxy clusters, covering a temperature range of [2-9]keV, observed with XMM-Newton. The mass profiles were derived from the observed gas density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Pointecouteau , M. Arnaud , G. W. Pratt

We report the discovery of significant localized structures in the projected two-dimensional (2D) spatial distributions of the Globular Cluster (GC) systems of the ten brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. We use catalogs of GCs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 R. D'Abrusco , G. Fabbiano , A. Zezas

We used star density maps obtained from 2MASS to obtain a sample of star clusters in the entire Galactic Plane with |b|<20deg. A total of 1788 star cluster candidates are identified in this survey. Among those are 681 previously known open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Froebrich , A. Scholz , C. L. Raftery

We investigate the structural properties of nuclear star clusters in late-type spiral galaxies. More specifically, we fit analytical models to HST images of 39 nuclear clusters in order to determine their effective radii after correction…

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