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CFHT Megacam data in (g',r',i') are used to obtain deep, wide-field photometry of the globular cluster system (GCS) around M87. A total of 6200 GCs brighter than M_I = -8.5 are included in the study, essentially containing almost the entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 William E. Harris

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

Hubble Space Telescope ACS/WFC data in (B,I) are used to investigate the globular cluster populations around 6 gE galaxies ~40 Mpc distant. The total comprises a sample of ~8000 high-probability globular clusters. PSF-convolved King-model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 William E. Harris

We examine the correlation between globular cluster (GC) color and magnitude using HST/ACS imaging for a sample of 79 early-type galaxies (-21.7<M_B<-15.2 mag) with accurate SBF distances from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. Using the KMM…

We present new high-quality near-infrared photometry of 10 Galactic Globular Clusters spanning a wide metallicity range (-2.12<[Fe/H]<-0.49): five clusters belong to the Halo (namely, NGC288, NGC362, NGC6752, M15 and M30) and five (namely,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Valenti , F. R. Ferraro , L. Origlia

We combine the globular cluster data for fifteen Brightest Cluster Galaxies and use this material to trace the mass-metallicity relations (MMR) in their globular cluster systems (GCSs). This work extends previous studies which correlate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert Cockcroft , William E. Harris , Elizabeth M. H. Wehner , Bradley C. Whitmore , Barry Rothberg

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

We present g and z photometry and size estimates for globular clusters (GCs) in the massive Virgo elliptical NGC 4649 (M60) using a five-pointing Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys mosaic. The metal-poor GCs show a monotonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jay Strader , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Bin Luo , Dong-Woo Kim , Jean P. Brodie , Tassos Fragos , John S. Gallagher , Vassiliki Kalogera , Andrew King , Andreas Zezas

Globular clusters (GCs) are fundamental tools to unveil the interaction and merger history of their host galaxies. Our goal is to perform the photometric analysis of the globular cluster system (GCS) of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4709, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 S. Federle , M. Gómez , S. Mieske , F. Dux , M. Hilker , I. A. Yegorova

Our understanding of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) largely comes from photometry and spectroscopy: appropriate photometric diagrams can disentangle first and second populations (1P and 2P)-1P having chemical signatures…

The optical color distributions of globular clusters (GCs) in most large elliptical galaxies are bimodal. Based on the assumed linear relationship between GC colors and their metallicities, the bimodality has been taken as evidence of two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Suk-Jin Yoon , Sangmo T. Sohn , Sang-Yoon Lee , Hak-Sub Kim , Jaeil Cho , Chul Chung , John P. Blakeslee

NGC 4649 (M60) is one of a handful of giant Virgo ellipticals. We have obtained Gemini/GMOS spectra for 38 GCs associated with this galaxy. Applying the multi-index chi^2 minimisation technique of Proctor & Sansom (2002) with the single…

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 present the serendipitous discovery of 195 extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) in one of the deepest optical images ever obtained, a 126 orbit HST/ACS imaging study of the nearby Galactic GC NGC 6397. The distant GCs are all found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jasonjot S. Kalirai , Jay Strader , Harvey B. Richer , Jay Anderson

The central region of the Virgo cluster of galaxies contains thousands of globular clusters (GCs), an order of magnitude more than the numbers found in the Local Group. Relics of early star formation epochs in the universe, these GCs also…

We present results from a wide-field imaging study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of a sample of edge-on, Sb-Sc spiral galaxies ~7-20 Mpc away. This study is part of a larger survey of the ensemble properties of the GC populations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katherine L. Rhode , Stephen E. Zepf , Arunav Kundu , Aaron N. Larner

We present $V$ and $I$ photometry for $\sim 150$ globular clusters with $20 < V < 27$ $\sim 2.5$ arcmin from the centre of M87, the cD galaxy in the Virgo cluster. The data were acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope which, with effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rebecca A. W. Elson , Basilio X. Santiago

We present the first photometric study of the globular cluster system (GCS) of the E galaxy NGC 3613 (Mv = -21.5, d = 30.1 Mpc), as well as the surface photometry of the host galaxy, based on Gemini/GMOS images. Being considered the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-28 Bruno J. De Bórtoli , Lilia P. Bassino , Juan P. Caso , Ana I. Ennis

New BVRI broad-band photometry and astrometry are presented for the globular cluster NGC 4147, based upon measurements derived from 524 ground-based CCD images mostly either donated by colleagues or retrieved from public archives. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. B. Stetson , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith

The Gemini/HST Galaxy Cluster Project (GCP) covers 14 z=0.2-1.0 clusters with X-ray luminosity of L_500 >= 10^44 ergs/s in the 0.1-2.4 keV band. In this paper we provide homogeneously calibrated X-ray luminosities, masses and radii, and we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Inger Jorgensen , Kristin Chiboucas , Pascale Hibon , Louise D. Nielsen , Marianne Takamiya