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Young, massive star clusters are the most notable and significant end products of violent star-forming episodes triggered by galaxy collisions, mergers, and close encounters. The question remains, however, whether or not at least a fraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard de Grijs

We present new UV observations for NGC288, taken with the WFC3 detector on board the Hubble Space Telescope, and combine them with existing optical data from the archive to explore the multiple-population phenomenon in this globular cluster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Piotto , A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , H. Jerjen , A. Bellini , S. Cassisi

The formation of globular clusters (GC) with their multiple stellar populations remains a puzzling, unsolved problem in astrophysics. One way to gather critical insight consists in finding sizable numbers of GC progenitors (GCP) while still…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Alvio Renzini

Over the last few decades, exhaustive surveys of extra Galactic globular clusters (EGGCs) have become feasible. Only recently, kinematical information of globular clusters (GCs) were available through Gaia DR2 spectroscopy and also proper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Agostino Leveque , Mirosław Giersz , Maurizio Paolillo

We present UV broadband photometry and optical emission-line measurements for a sample of 32 Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in clusters of the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster Structure Survey (REXCESS) with z = 0.06-0.18. The REXCESS…

Wide-field photometry of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) has been investigated to overcome limitations from the small field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope in the study of multiple populations. In particular, 'chromosome maps' (ChMs)…

This paper reviews some recent work on the properties of the outer halos of galaxies. I particularly focus on recent and upcoming advances made with the study of globular clusters. Globular clusters can be observed out to ~100 kpc from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Stephen E. Zepf

HST has recently revealed that many among the most massive globular clusters harbor multiple stellar populations, and --most surprisingly-- some of them are extremely helium rich. How these clusters managed to generate such complex stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-10 Alvio Renzini

By using the public UV imaging data obtained by the GALEX (Galaxy Ultraviolet Explorer) for nearby galaxies, we have compiled a list of lenticular galaxies possessing ultraviolet rings - starforming regions tightly confined to particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marina A. Ilyina , Olga K. Sil'chenko

We describe the motivations and background of a large survey of nearby stel- lar populations using the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) aboard the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission. UVOT, with its wide field, NUV sensitivity, and 2.3…

We have performed photometric analysis of four Galactic globular clusters (GGCs): NGC 4147, NGC 4590, NGC 5053 and NGC 7492 using far-UV and near-UV filters of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat. With the help of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Ranjan Kumar , Ananta C. Pradhan , M. Parthasarathy , Devendra K. Ojha , Abhisek Mohapatra , Jayant Murthy

We review the main stellar features observed in starburst spectra from the UV to the near-IR and their use as fundamental tools to determine the properties of stellar populations from integrated spectra. The origin and dependence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Schaerer

We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Michael Hilker , Holger Baumgardt , Antonio Sollima , Andrea Bellini

We exploit multi-band Hubble Space Telescope photometry to investigate multiple populations (MPs) along the red horizontal branches (HBs) and red clumps of fourteen metal-rich Globular Clusters (GCs), including twelve Milky Way GCs and the…

An increasing amount of spectroscopic and photometric evidence is showing that the stellar populations of globular clusters are not as simple as they have been considered for many years. The presence of at least two different populations of…

We analyze the clustering properties of ultraviolet selected galaxies by using GALEX-SDSS data at z<0.6 and CFHTLS deep u' imaging at z=1. These datasets provide a unique basis at z< 1 which can be directly compared with high redshift…

Globular clusters (GCs) are old massive star clusters that serve as `fossils' of galaxy formation. The advent of Gaia observatory has enabled detailed kinematics studies of the Galactic GCs and revolutionized our understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-12 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Open and globular star clusters have served as benchmarks for the study of stellar evolution due to their supposed nature as simple stellar populations of the same age and metallicity. After a brief review of some of the pioneering work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Jason S. Kalirai , Harvey B. Richer

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

We have measured the strength of the UV upturn for red sequence galaxies in the Abell~1689 cluster at $z=0.18$, reaching to or below the $L^*$ level and therefore probing the general evolution of the upturn phenomenon. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Sadman S. Ali , Malcolm N. Bremer , Steven Phillipps , Roberto De Propris