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A homogeneous sample of galaxy redshifts in the core regions (R < 0.5 h$^{-1}$ Mpc) of 12 clusters is used to measure the frequency of substructure with different tests. In 50 % of the cases substructure is detected, a frequency which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Stein

Globular Cluster (GC) systems of most early-type galaxies show bimodal optical color distributions, yet their Luminosity Functions (LFs) look like simple Gaussians with turn-over magnitudes used for determination of distances and the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben

Hubble Space Telescope imaging for 26 giant early-type galaxies, all drawn from the MAST archive, is used to carry out photometry of their surrounding globular cluster (GC) systems. Most of these targets are Brightest Cluster Galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 William E. Harris

At large redshifts, a cluster or group may be too distant for the galaxies within the cluster to be detected individually. However, the light from these ``undetected'' galaxies still modulates the surface brightness of the background sky.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Dalcanton

The HST ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey is a deep two passband imaging survey of the nearest very rich cluster of galaxies, covering a range of galaxy density environments. The imaging is complemented by a recent wide field redshift survey…

Empirically, the total number (or total mass) of globular clusters bound in a single galactic system correlates with the viral mass of the system. The form of this relation and its intrinsic scatter are potentially valuable constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-03 Minh Ngoc Le , Andrew P. Cooper

We present a study of the spatial and color distributions of four early-type galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems observed as part of our ongoing wide-field imaging survey. We use $BVR$ KPNO-4m+MOSAIC imaging data to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan R. Hargis , Katherine L. Rhode

The origin and formation of globular clusters has remained a mystery. We present a formation scenario for ancient globular cluster-like objects that form in ultra-high resolution simulations (smallest cell size $<0.1\,\mathrm{pc}$, mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-09 Thales A. Gutcke

We report the discovery of 4 candidate intracluster globular clusters (IGCs) in a single deep HST ACS field of the Virgo Cluster. We show that each cluster is roughly spherical, has a magnitude near the peak of the Virgo globular cluster…

Globular clusters at the distance of M31 have apparent angular sizes of a few arcseconds. While many M31 GCs have been detected and studied from ground-based images, the high spatial resolution of HST allows much more robust detection and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Barmby , J. P. Huchra

We present a photometric catalogue of star cluster candidates in Hickson compact groups (HCGs) 7, 31, 42, 59, and 92, based on observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Fedotov , S. C. Gallagher , P. R. Durrell , N. Bastian , I. S. Konstantopoulos , J. Charlton , K. E. Johnson , R. Chandar

We present a catalog of extended objects in the vicinity of M81 based a set of 24 Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Wide Field Camera (WFC) F814W (I-band) images. We have found 233 good globular cluster candidates; 92…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. B. Nantais , J. P. Huchra , B. McLeod , J. Strader , J. P. Brodie

We use the largest homogeneous sample of globular clusters (GCs), drawn from the ACSVCS and ACSFCS, to investigate the color gradients of GC systems in 76 early-type galaxies. We find that most GC systems possess an obvious negative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chengze Liu , Eric W. Peng , Andres Jordan , Laura Ferrarese , John P. Blakeslee , Patrick Cote , Simona Mei

This paper is a continuation of an ongoing study of the evolutionary processes affecting cluster galaxies. Both CCD R band and H alpha narrow-band imaging was used to determine photometric parameters (m_(r), r_(24), H alpha flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. F. Thomas , C. Moss , P. A. James , S. M. Bennett , A. Aragón-Salamanca , M. Whittle

The population of Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies is crucial for understanding the extremes of galaxy formation and evolution of the universe. As LSB galaxies are mostly rich in gas (HI), the alpha.40-SDSS DR7 sample is absolutely one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei Du , Hong Wu , Man I Lam , Yinan Zhu , Fengjie Lei , Zhimin Zhou

Using 3.6 and 4.5$\mu$m images of 73 late-type, edge-on galaxies from the S$^4$G survey, we compare the richness of the globular cluster populations of these galaxies to those of early type galaxies that we measured previously. In general,…

The globular clusters (GC) of our Galaxy have been found to lie close to a plane in the log(R_e), log(sigma), SB_e space, on the continuation of the Fundamental Plane (FP) known to characterize the properties of early-type galaxies. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pasquato , G. Bertin

We present new deep photometry of the rich globular cluster (GC) systems around the Brightest Cluster Galaxies UGC 9799 (Abell 2052) and UGC 10143 (Abell 2147), obtained with the HST ACS and WFC3 cameras. For comparison, we also present new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 W. E. Harris , S. M. Ciccone , G. M. Eadie , O. Y. Gnedin , D. Geisler , B. Rothberg , J. Bailin

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 nearby early-type galaxies in the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) and Mass Assembly of early-Type GaLAxies with their fine Structures…

We present the initial results of a study of globular clusters in M31, using the Faint Object Camera (FOC) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The sample of objects consists of 13 clusters spanning a range of properties. Three inde-…