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We report the discovery of a previously unknown massive Galactic star cluster at l=29.22, b=-0.20. Identified visually in mid-IR images from the Spitzer GLIMPSE survey, the cluster contains at least 8 late-type supergiants, based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael J. Alexander , Henry A. Kobulnicky , Dan P. Clemens , Katherine Jameson , April Pinnick , Michael Pavel

As tracers of star formation, galaxy assembly and mass distribution, globular clusters have provided important clues to our understanding of early-type galaxies. But their study has been mostly constrained to galaxy groups and clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-16 R. Salinas , A. Alabi , T. Richtler , R. R. Lane

We study the quiescent ultra-diffuse galaxy FCC 224 in the Fornax cluster using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, motivated by peculiar properties of its globular cluster (GC) system revealed in shallower imaging. The surface brightness…

Analysis of the globular cluster (GC) system of the giant elliptical (E3) galaxy NGC 4365, from eight Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) pointings and a wide-field Subaru/SuprimeCam (S-Cam) image, is presented. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Christina Blom , Lee R. Spitler , Duncan A. Forbes

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

This paper explores if, and to what an extent, the stellar populations of early type galaxies can be traced through the colour distribution of their globular cluster systems. The analysis, based on a galaxy sample from the Virgo ACS data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Juan C. Forte , E. Irene Vega , Favio R. Faifer

We have obtained deep photometry of NGC 1199 (in the compact group HCG 22) and NGC 6868 (in the Telescopium loose group) with the Keck II and the VLT-I telescopes. Both galaxies are the optically brightest galaxy of their groups. NGC 1199…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Da Rocha , C. Mendes de Oliveira , M. Bolte , B. L. Ziegler , T. H. Puzia

We present HST/ACS $g$ and $z$ photometry and half-light radii $R_{\rm h}$ measurements of 360 globular cluster (GC) candidates around the nearby S0 galaxy NGC 3115. We also include Subaru/Suprime-Cam $g$, $r$, and $i$ photometry of 421…

We present recent results from our long-term Gemini/GMOS study of globular clusters in early-type galaxies. To date, we have obtained photometry and spectroscopy for clusters in NGCs 3379, 4649, 524, 7332, and IC 1459. We find a clear…

The formation of globular clusters (GC), with their multiple stellar generations, is still an unsolved puzzle. Thus, interest is rising on the possibility to detect their precursors at high redshift, hence directly witnessing their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Lucia Pozzetti , Claudia Maraston , Alvio Renzini

We present a preliminary report on the first deep infrared photometry of 2MASS GC01 and 2MASS GC02 (GC01 and GC02 hereafter) - new Galactic globular cluster (GC) candidates, discovered by the 2MASS. They both appear to be genuine disk GCs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentin D. Ivanov , Jordanka Borissova , Leonardo Vanzi

We present the first results of a large spectroscopic survey of candidate globular clusters located in the extreme outskirts of the nearby M31 galaxy. We obtained low resolution spectra of 48 targets selected from the XSC of 2MASS, as in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Galleti , M. Bellazzini , L. Federici , A. Buzzoni , F. Fusi Pecci

We study the size and structure of globular clusters (GC) systems of 118 early-type galaxies from the NGVS, MATLAS, and ACSVCS surveys. Fitting S\'ersic profiles, we investigate the relationship between effective radii of GC systems ($R_{e,…

We have undertaken a study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of a large sample of elliptical and spiral galaxies in order to test predictions of galaxy formation models. Here we present results for the giant Virgo elliptical NGC 4472…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. L. Rhode , S. E. Zepf

We study the Globular Cluster (GC) system of the nearby elliptical galaxy M87 using the newly available dataset with accurate kinematics (Strader et al.2011). We find evidence for three distinct sub-populations of GCs in terms of colours,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Agnello , N. W. Evans , A. J. Romanowsky , J. P. Brodie

The $13.6\times 13.6$ arcmin$^{2}$ field covering the central part of the globular cluster NGC~6397 was surveyed in a search for short-period variable stars. We obtained light curves for 6 close binaries, 2 SX~Phe stars and 1 RR~Lyrae…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Kaluzny

We have conducted a photometric survey of the globular cluster NGC 6397 in a search for variable stars. We obtained ~11h of time-resolved photometric images with one ne European Southern Observatory-Very Large Telescope using the FOcal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 E. Martinazzi , S. O. Kepler , J. E. S. Costa

We study the globular cluster (GC) system of the dust-lane elliptical galaxy NGC 6702, using B, V and I-band photometric observations carried out at the Keck telescope. This galaxy has a spectroscopic age of ~2Gyrs suggesting recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Georgakakis , D. A. Forbes , J. P. Brodie

JWST/NIRCam 0.9 to 2.0 micron images reveal a population of point sources around the major galaxies in the El Gordo cluster at redshift z=0.87. Their distribution in the color--magnitude diagrams shows a narrow sequence well separated from…

We present a new photometric catalogue of the rich globular cluster (GC) system around M87, the brightest cluster galaxy in Virgo. Using archival Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) images in the ugriz bands, observed with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-24 L. J. Oldham , M. W. Auger
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