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Hubble Space Telescope allows us to study the central surface brightness profiles for globular clusters at unprecedented detail. We have mined the HST archives to obtain 38 WFPC2 images of galactic globular clusters with adequate exposure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noyola , K. Gebhardt

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

We present the first results from our HST Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) survey of seven central supergiant cluster galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems. We measure a total of 48000 GCs in all seven galaxies, representing the…

We investigate the stellar disk properties of a sample of 19 nearby spiral galaxies with low inclination and late Hubble type (Scd or later). We combine our high-resolution HST I-band observations with existing ground-based optical images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Torsten Boeker , Rebecca Stanek , Roeland P. van der Marel

We here present the luminosity function (LF) of globular clusters (GCs) in five nearby spiral galaxies using the samples of GC candidates selected in Hubble Space Telescope mosaic images in F435W, F555W and F814W filters. Our search, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Luis Lomelí-Núñez , Y. D. Mayya , L. H. Rodríguez-Merino , P. A. Ovando , D. Rosa-González

We present the results from a wide-field imaging study of globular cluster (GC) systems in three early-type galaxies. Combinations of Subaru/Suprime-Cam, CFHT/MegaCam and HST/WFPC2/ACS data were used to determine the GC system properties of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sreeja S. Kartha , Duncan A. Forbes , Lee R. Spitler , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jacob A. Arnold , Jean P. Brodie

Deep imaging data from the Keck II telescope are employed to study the globular cluster (GC) populations in the cores of six rich Abell clusters. The sample includes A754, A1644, A2124, A2147, A2151, and A2152, and spans the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John P. Blakeslee

We present a study of globular clusters (GCs) in 17 relatively nearby early-type galaxies, based on deep HST/WFPC2 F555W and F814W images. We compare color distributions, cluster sizes and luminosity functions with those of GCs in the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Larsen , J. P. Brodie , J. P. Huchra , D. A. Forbes , C. Grillmair

We present the results of our detailed WFPC2-based photometric study of the globular cluster systems (GCS) of over 60 elliptical and S0 galaxies. Approximately 50\% of the GCSs of ellipticals, and at least 15-20\% of S0s reveal bimodality…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kundu , B. C. Whitmore

We present a study of the properties of the star-cluster systems around pseudo-bulges of late-type spiral galaxies using a sample of 11 galaxies with distances from 17 to 37 Mpc. Star clusters are identified from multiband HST ACS and WFPC2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daiana Di Nino , Michele Trenti , Massimo Stiavelli , C. Marcella Carollo , Claudia Scarlata , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

We present the results of a search for globular clusters in the surroundings of 15 low surface brightness dwarf galaxies belonging to the Fornax Cluster, which was carried out on CCD images obtained with the C and T1 filters of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. P. Bassino , S. A. Cellone , J. C. Forte , B. Dirsch

This paper presents results from wide-field imaging of the globular cluster (GC) systems of five intermediate-luminosity (M_V ~-21 to -22) early-type galaxies. The aim is to accurately quantify the global properties of the GC systems by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jonathan R. Hargis , Katherine L. Rhode

We investigate the old globular cluster (GC) population of 68 faint (Mv>-16 mag) dwarf galaxies located in the halo regions of nearby (<12 Mpc) loose galaxy groups and in the field environment based on archival HST/ACS images in F606W and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iskren Y. Georgiev , Thomas H. Puzia , Michael Hilker , Paul Goudfrooij

Properties of 53 globular cluster systems are investigated. Strong correlations are found between parent galaxy luminosity and both the slope of the radial density profile for clusters and the width of the cluster color (metallicity)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sidney van den Bergh

We present Hubble Space Telescope ACS/WFC and WFC3/UVIS imaging for a sample of 50 low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in the $\sim$10$^{15}$ M$_{\odot}$ Perseus cluster, which were originally identified in ground-based imaging. We…

We present a study of the globular cluster systems of four early-type poststarburst galaxies using deep g and I-band images from the ACS camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). All the galaxies feature shells distributed around…

Deep images of 10 early-type galaxies in low-density environments have been obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The global properties of the globular cluster (GC) systems of the galaxies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Cho , R. M. Sharples , J. P. Blakeslee , S. E. Zepf , A. Kundu , H. -S. Kim , S. -J. Yoon

We present an analysis of the globular cluster systems of 28 elliptical galaxies using archival WFPC2 images in the V and I-bands. The V-I color distributions of at least 50% of the galaxies appear to be bimodal {\it at the present level of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arunav Kundu , Brad Whitmore

We analyse the globular cluster (GC) systems of a sample of 15 massive, compact early-type galaxies (ETGs), 13 of which have already been identified as good relic galaxy candidates on the basis of their compact morphologies, old stellar…

We examine the globular cluster systems (GCS) of a sample of 34 S0 galaxies from a WFPC2 snapshot survey in the V and I-bands. Of these 34 galaxies, 29 have measurable globular cluster systems. The mean color of the GCSs of individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Arunav Kundu , Brad Whitmore
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