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Following on from our discovery of a significant population of M31 outer halo globular clusters (GCs), and updates to the Revised Bologna Catalogue of M31 GCs, we investigate the GC system of M31 out to an unprecedented radius (~120kpc). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. P. Huxor , A. M. N. Ferguson , N. R. Tanvir , M. J. Irwin , A. D. Mackey , R. A. Ibata , T. Bridges , S. C. Chapman , G. F. Lewis

This paper presents accurate spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 16 M31 globular clusters (GCs) confirmed by spectroscopy and/or high spatial-resolution imaging, as well as 30 M31 globular cluster candidates detected by Mochejska et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , David Burstein , Yanbin Yang , Zhou Fan , Jiansheng Chen , Zhaoji Jiang

We present a multiwavelength photometric analysis of the globular cluster M2. The data-set has been obtained by combining high-resolution (HST/WFPC2 and ACS) and wide-field (GALEX) space observations and ground based (MEGACAM-CFHT,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-21 E. Dalessandro , G. Beccari , B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , R. Schiavon , R. T. Rood

We present wide area UBRI photometry for globular clusters around the Leo group galaxy NGC 3379. Globular cluster candidates are selected from their B-band magnitudes and their (U-B)o vs (B-I)o colours. A colour-colour selection region was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shannon Whitlock , Duncan A. Forbes , Michael A. Beasley

In this paper we present the second and final part of a large and photometrically homogeneous CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) data base, comprising 52 nearby Galactic globular clusters (GGC) imaged in the V and I bands. The catalog has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Rosenberg , A. Aparicio , I. Saviane , G. Piotto

We use available multifilter Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 imaging of five (M81, M83, NGC 6946, M101, and M51) low inclination, nearby spiral galaxies to study ancient star cluster populations. M81 globular clusters (GC) have an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rupali Chandar , Bradley Whitmore , Myung Gyoon Lee

We present Gemini griz photometry for 521 globular cluster (GC) candidates in a 5.5 x 5.5 arcmin field centered 3.8 arcmin to the south and 0.9 arcmin to the west of the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4486. All these objects have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Juan C. Forte , Favio R. Faifer , E. Irene Vega , Lilia P. Bassino , Analia V. Smith Castelli , Sergio A. Cellone , Douglas Geisler

We have studied the properties of a sample of 67 very blue and likely young massive clusters in M31 extracted from the Bologna Revised Catalog of globular clusters, selected according to their color [(B-V) < 0.45] and/or to the strength of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Fusi Pecci , M. Bellazzini , A. Buzzoni , E. De Simone , L. Federici , S. Galleti

The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies performed to date essentially use multi-colour photometry, combined with theoretical stellar synthesis models, to derive ages, masses, extinction estimates, and metallicities. M31…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Fan , J. Ma , R. de Grijs , Y. Yang , X. Zhou

We report new, as yet unpublished HST/WFPC2 V, I photometry of 9 globular clusters in M31. These are part of a total sample of 19 clusters on M31 with well observed CMDs from HST. The clusters have the full range of horizontal branch…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Rich , C. E. Corsi , M. Bellazzini , L. Federici , C. Cacciari , F. Fusi Pecci

This paper is the fourth in a series presenting spectrophotometry of 51 globular cluster candidates, that were detected by Mochejska et al. in the nearby galaxy M33 using the data collected by the DIRECT project. The frames of M33 in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Jiansheng Chen , Hong Wu , Xu Kong , Zhaoji Jiang , Suijian Xue , Jin Zhu

We have imaged with HST's WFC3/UVIS the central 2.7$\times$2.7 arcmin$^2$ region of the giant elliptical galaxy M 87, using the ultraviolet filter F275W. In combination with archival ACS/WFC data taken through the F606W and F814W filters,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Bellini , A. Renzini , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , M. Soto , T. M. Brown , A. P. Milone , S. T. Sohn , A. V. Sweigart

We searched the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for outer halo globular clusters (GCs) around M31. Our search of non-stellar objects, within the limits 0.3 < (g-i)o < 1.5 and 14.0 < ro < 19.0 concentrated in some remote areas of the extended halo,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Graziella di Tullio Zinn , Robert Zinn

We report the first results from deep ACS imaging of ten classical globular clusters in the far outer regions (15 < R_p < 100 kpc) of M31. Eight of the clusters, including two of the most remote M31 globular clusters presently known, are…

B514 is a remote M31 globular cluster which locating at a projected distance of R_p~55 kpc. Deep observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are used to provide the accurate integrated light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Ma , Song Wang , Zhenyu Wu , Zhou Fan , Tianmeng Zhang , Jianghua Wu

We present wide-field multiband photometry of globular cluster (GC) systems in NGC 1399, NGC 1404, and NGC 1387 located at the central region of the Fornax galaxy cluster. Observation was carried out through U, B, V, and I bands, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Hak-Sub Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Sang Chul Kim , Eunhyeuk Kim , Chul Chung , Sang-Yoon Lee , Young-Wook Lee

Aims - We present the first results of a large spectroscopic survey of globular clusters and candidate globular clusters in the nearby M~31 galaxy. The survey is aimed at the classification of known candidate M~31 clusters and at the study…

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

We present the first part of the first large and homogeneous CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) data base, comprising 52 nearby Galactic globular clusters (GGC) imaged in the V and I bands using only two telescopes (one for each hemisphere).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Rosenberg , G. Piotto , I. Saviane , A. Aparicio

We present $UBVRI$ photometry for 392 star clusters and candidates in the field of M33, which are selected from the most recent star cluster catalog. In this catalog, the authors listed star clusters' parameters such as cluster positions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jun Ma

We present a kinematic analysis of the globular cluster(GC) system in M31. Using the photometric and spectroscopic database of 504 GCs, we have investigated the kinematics of the M31 GC system. We find that the all GC system shows strong…