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We present accurate relative ages for a sample of 55 Galactic globular clusters. The ages have been obtained by measuring the difference between the horizontal branch and the turnoff in two, internally photometrically homogeneous databases.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 F. De Angeli , G. Piotto , S. Cassisi , G. Busso , A. Recio-Blanco , M. Salaris , A. Aparicio , A. Rosenberg

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…

Globular clusters (GCs) are fossil tracer of formation and evolution of galaxies and studying their properties provides crucial insights into past formation and interaction events. We study the properties of GC candidates in 1.25 $\times$…

GC-1 and GC-2 are two globular clusters (GCs) in the remote halo of M81 and M82 in the M81 group discovered by Jang et al. using the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) images. These two GCs were observed as part of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Jun Ma , Song Wang , Zhenyu Wu , Tianmeng Zhang , Hu Zou , Jundan Nie , Zhiming Zhou , Xu Zhou , Xiyang Peng , Jiali Wang , Jianghua Wu , Cuihua Du , Qirong Yuan

We present the results of a search for clusters in dwarf irregular galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Cluster using HST WFPC2 snapshot data. The galaxy sample includes 28 galaxies, 11 of which are confirmed members of the Virgo and Fornax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anil Seth , Knut Olsen , Bryan Miller , Jennifer Lotz , Rosie Telford

We performed a search for new dwarf galaxies in a direction towards the southwestern part of the Local Void using the data on DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. In a sky area of $\sim1000$ square degrees, we discovered 12 candidates to nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-20 A. A. Popova , I. D. Karachentsev

Globular clusters in the outer halo (R_gc > 15 kpc) are found to be systematically fainter than those at smaller Galactocentric distances. Within the outer halo the compact clusters with half-light radii R_h < 10 pc are only found at R_gc <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 Sidney van den Bergh , Dougal Mackey

James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam images have revealed 154 reliable globular cluster (GC) candidates around the $z = 0.0513$ elliptical galaxy VV~191a after subtracting 34 likely interlopers from background galaxies inside our search area.…

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…

NGC 5846 is a giant elliptical galaxy with a previously well studied globular cluster system (GCS), known to have a bimodal colour distribution with a remarkably high red fraction. Here we revisit the central galaxy regions searching for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. L. Chies-Santos , M. G. Pastoriza , B. X. Santiago , D. A. Forbes

We study the mass distribution and kinematics of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 (NGC 4486) using discrete chemo-dynamical, axisymmetric Jeans equation modelling. Our catalogue comprises 894 globular clusters (GCs) extending to a projected…

M54 is the central cluster of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. This stellar system is now in process of being disrupted by the tidal interaction with the Milky Way and represents one of the building blocks of the Galactic Halo. Recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. P. Milone

We study the globular cluster (GC) populations of 21 giant elliptical galaxies in 19 Abell clusters. This method, applied here primarily in the R band, is based on the surface brightness fluctuations technique of extragalactic distance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John P. Blakeslee , John L. Tonry , Mark R. Metzger

We present photometry for the globular cluster NGC 6642 using the F606W and F814W filters with the ACS/WFC third generation camera on board of Hubble Space Telescope. The Colour Magnitude Diagram shows sources reaching ~ 6 mags below the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Balbinot , B. X. Santiago , E. Bica , C. Bonatto

1057 globular cluster candidates have been identified in a WFPC2 image of the inner region of M87. The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function (GCLF) can be well fit by a Gaussian profile with a mean value of m_V^0=23.67 +/- 0.07 mag and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 A. Kundu , B. C. Whitmore , W. B. Sparks , F. D. Macchetto , S. E. Zepf , K. M. Ashman

Globular Cluster (GC) formation seems to be a widespread mode of star formation in extreme starbursts triggered by strong interactions and mergers of massive gas-rich galaxies. We use our detailed chemically consistent evolutionary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben

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 report a photometric study of globular clusters (GCs), ultracompact dwarfs (UCDs), and dwarf galaxies in the giant merging galaxy cluster Abell 2744 at z = 0.308. Color-magnitude diagrams of the point sources derived from deep F814W…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Myung Gyoon Lee , In Sung Jang

By using the multifiber spectrograph FLAMES mounted at the ESO-VLT, we have obtained high-resolution spectra for 18 giant stars, belonging to 3 old globular clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud (namely NGC 1786, 2210 and 2257). While…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , E. Pancino

As ancient star clusters, globular clusters (GCs) are regarded as powerful tracers of galaxy evolution and assembly. Due to their brightness and compact sizes, GCs are employed to probe the kinematics and stellar population properties of…