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We have obtained HST-NICMOS observations of five of M31's most metal rich globular clusters: G1, G170, G174, G177 & G280. For the two clusters farthest from the nucleus we statistically subtract the field population and estimate…

We have studied the stellar main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC2298 using deep HST/ACS observations in the F606W and F814W bands covering an area of 3.4' x 3.4' around the cluster centre or about twice the cluster's half-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guido De Marchi , Luigi Pulone

We present wide field JHKs photometry of 16 Galactic globular clusters located towards the Galactic bulge, calibrated on the 2MASS photometric system. Differential reddening corrections and statistical field star decontamination are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Roger E. Cohen , Christian Moni Bidin , Francesco Mauro , Charles Bonatto , Douglas Geisler

We present an astrometry and photometry catalogue of globular cluster (GC) candidates detected with HST WFPC2 in a sample of 19 early-type galaxies, appropriate for comparison to the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) populations observed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Philip J Humphrey

(Abridged) We present the results of M31 globular cluster (GC) X-ray source survey, based on the data of XMM-Newton and Chandra observations covering ~6100 sq.arcmin of M31. We detected 43 X-ray sources coincident with globular cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey Trudolyubov , William Priedhorsky

We here present the luminosity function (LF) of globular clusters (GCs) in five nearby spiral galaxies using the samples of GC candidates selected in Hubble Space Telescope mosaic images in F435W, F555W and F814W filters. Our search, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Luis Lomelí-Núñez , Y. D. Mayya , L. H. Rodríguez-Merino , P. A. Ovando , D. Rosa-González

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

We have mosaiced 2MASS images to derive surface brightness profiles in JHK for 104 Galactic globular clusters. We fit these with King profiles, and show that the core radii are identical to within the errors for each of these IR colors, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Judith G. Cohen , Scott Hsieh , Stanimir Metchev , S. G. Djorgovski , M. Malkan

The (rest-frame) near-IR domain contains important stellar population diagnostics and is often used to estimate masses of galaxies at low as well as high redshifts. However, many stellar population models are still relatively poorly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter M. Pessev , Paul Goudfrooij , Thomas H. Puzia , Rupali Chandar

We present new VI photometry for the halo globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099), and compute luminosity functions (LFs) in both bands for samples of about 15,000 hydrogen-burning stars from near the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) to over four…

The study of outer halo globular cluster (GC) populations can give insight into galaxy merging, globular cluster accretion and the origin of GCs. We use archival Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) data in concert with space-based GALEX, IRAC…

The whole Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, 14,555 deg^2 has been searched for intergalactic globular clusters (IGCs) in the Local Group (LG). Using optical, infrared, and ultraviolet photometric selection criteria and photometric redshifts,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Graziella di Tullio Zinn , Robert Zinn

We report the first detailed chemical abundances for 5 globular clusters (GCs) in M31 from high-resolution (R ~ 25,000) spectroscopy of their integrated light. These GCs are the first in a larger set of clusters observed as part of an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , S. Cameron , A. McWilliam , J. G. Cohen

We investigate the multiple stellar populations of the globular clusters M3, M5, M13, and M71 using $g^\prime$ and intermediate-band CN-$\lambda 3883$ photometry obtained with the WIYN 0.9-m telescope on Kitt Peak. We find a strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 William P. Bowman , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Liese van Zee , Amanda Winans , Robin Ciardullo , Caryl Gronwall

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

The serendipitous discovery of the M31 globular cluster (GC) EXT8 has presented a significant challenge to current theories for GC formation. By finding other GCs similar to EXT8, it should become clear if and/or how EXT8 can fit into our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Bas van Heumen , William E. Harris , Søren S. Larsen , Else Starkenburg

We present moderate-resolution spectroscopy of globular clusters (GCs) around the Sa/Sb spiral galaxy M81 (NGC 3031). Sixteen candidate clusters were observed with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. All are…

We have obtained broad-band near-infrared photometry for seven Galactic star clusters (M92, M15, M13, M5, NGC1851, M71 and NGC6791) using the WIRCam wide-field imager on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, supplemented by images of NGC1851…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Crystal Brasseur , Peter B. Stetson , Don A. VandenBerg , Luca Casagrande , Giuseppe Bono , Massimo Dall'Ora

We present a catalog of 908 objects observed with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) in the vicinity fields of M31 and M33, targeted as globular clusters (GCs) and candidates. The targets include known…

James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam images have revealed 154 reliable globular cluster (GC) candidates around the $z = 0.0513$ elliptical galaxy VV~191a after subtracting 34 likely interlopers from background galaxies inside our search area.…