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We present a wide-field study of the globular cluster system (GCS) of the field lenticular galaxy NGC 1172, based on observations from GMOS/Gemini (optical), FourStar/Magellan (NIR), and archival data from ACS/HST (optical). This analysis…

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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

We present the results of a wide-field photometric study of the globular cluster (GC) system of the edge-on Sab spiral NGC7814. This is the first spiral to be fully analyzed from our survey of the GC systems of a large sample of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Rhode , S. E. Zepf

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 new deep photometry of the globular cluster system (GCS) around NGC 6166, the central supergiant galaxy in Abell 2199. HST data from the ACS and WFC3 cameras in F475W, F814W are used to determine the spatial distribution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 William E. Harris , John P. Blakeslee , Bradley C. Whitmore , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Douglas Geisler , Barry Rothberg

We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry in optical (F475X) and near-infrared (F110W) bands of the globular cluster (GC) systems of the inner halos of a sample of 15 massive elliptical galaxies. The targets are selected from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-06 Kate Hartman , William E. Harris , John P. Blakeslee , Chung-Pei Ma , Jenny E. Greene

We have discovered three globular clusters beyond the Holmberg radius in Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys images of the gas-rich dark matter dominated blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC2915. The clusters, all of which start to…

Galaxy formation and evolution is hierarchical. The most massive galaxies are thought to form their central regions early through violent dissipational processes, then grow inside-out by accreting smaller satellites. While widely supported,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-29 Haoran Dou , Hao Li , Hongxin Zhang , Heng Yu , Huiyuan Wang

New and archival HST images of the globular cluster systems of 17 relatively nearby galaxies and 6 more distant galaxies have been used to establish the characteristics of GC subpopulations over a range of host galaxy morphological type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean P. Brodie

Globular clusters (GCs) are found ubiquitously in massive galaxies and due to their old ages, they are regarded as fossil records of galaxy evolution. Spectroscopic studies of GC systems are often limited to the outskirts of galaxies, where…

The global properties of all known Galactic globular clusters are examined. The relationship between the luminosities and the metallicities of Galactic globular clusters is found to be complex. Among luminous clusters there is a correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Sidney van den Bergh

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 a photometric study of the globular cluster (GC) system associated to the lenticular galaxy (S0) NGC 6861, which is located in a relatively low density environment. It is based on GEMINI/GMOS images in the filters g', r', i' of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Carlos G. Escudero , Favio R. Faifer , Lilia P. Bassino , Juan Pablo Calderon , Juan Pablo Caso

We explore the rich globular cluster (GC) system of the nearby Sa galaxy M104, the "Sombrero" (NGC 4594), using archive WFPC2 data. The GC colour distribution is found to be bimodal at the > 99% level, with peaks at V-I = 0.96+/-0.03 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Soeren S. Larsen , Duncan A. Forbes , Jean P. Brodie

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

In most nearby galaxies, photometry of the integrated light of their globular clusters (GCs) has been obtained in only two filters, yielding just a single color index. However, NGC 4874, the brightest central galaxy in the Coma cluster, now…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Kate Hartman , William E. Harris , Jinoo Kim

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 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

We present a study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of nearby elliptical and S0 galaxies at a variety of wavelengths from the X-ray to the infrared. Our analysis shows that roughly half of the low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arunav Kundu , Thomas J. Maccarone , Stephen E. Zepf

We present a photometric study of the prototype merger remnant NGC 3610 and its globular cluster (GC) system, based on new GEMINI/GMOS and ACS/HST archival images. Thanks to the large FOV of our GMOS data, larger than previous studies, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-10 Lilia P. Bassino , Juan P. Caso