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In this paper, we present internal surface brightness profiles, using images in the F606W and F814W filter bands observed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, for ten globular clusters (GCs) in the outer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Song Wang , Jun Ma

In this paper, we present surface brightness profiles for 79 globular clusters in M31, using images observed with {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, some of which are from new observations. The structural and dynamical parameters are derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Song Wang , Jun Ma

Using high-dispersion spectra from the HIRES echelle spectrograph on the Keck I telescope, we measure velocity dispersions for 4 globular clusters in M33. Combining the velocity dispersions with integrated photometry and structural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. S. Larsen , J. P. Brodie , A. Sarajedini , J. P. Huchra

The structures of globular clusters (GCs) reflect their dynamical states and past histories. High-resolution imaging allows the exploration of morphologies of clusters in other galaxies. Surface brightness profiles from new Hubble Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. Barmby , D. E. McLaughlin , W. E. Harris , G. L. H. Harris , D. A. Forbes

We present the morphological properties of 161 star clusters in M33 using the Advanced Camera For Surveys Wide Field Channel onboard the Hubble Space Telescope using observations with the F606W and F814W filters. We obtain, for the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Izaskun San Roman , Ata Sarajedini , Jon A. Holtzman , Donald R. Garnett

We analyze the structural parameters of the largest-available sample of spatially resolved extragalactic globular clusters. The images of M31 GCs were found in a search of HST archival data, described in a companion paper. We measure the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Barmby , S. Holland , J. P. Huchra

We have constructed color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for ten globular clusters in the halo of the nearby spiral galaxy M33 based on Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 observations in the F555W (~V) and F814W (~I) filters.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ata Sarajedini , Doug Geisler , Paul Harding , Robert Schommer

We present a structural analysis of halo star clusters in M31 based on deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging. The clusters in our sample span a range in galactocentric projected distance from 13 to 100…

Surface brightness profiles for 23 M31 star clusters were measured using images from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, and fit to two types of models to determine the clusters' structural properties. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-07 P. Barmby , S. Perina , M. Bellazzini , J. G. Cohen , P. W. Hodge , J. P. Huchra , M. Kissler-Patig , T. H. Puzia , J. Strader

We present detailed chemical abundances for $>$20 elements in $\sim$30 globular clusters in M31. These results have been obtained using high resolution ($\lambda/\Delta\lambda\sim$24,000) spectra of their integrated light and analyzed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , J. Cohen

We present new imaging measurements of 27 individual globular clusters in the halo of the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope STIS and WFPC2 cameras. Combining these with similar data for selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. E. Harris , G. L. H. Harris , S. T. Holland , D. E. McLaughlin

We present structural parameters for 51 compact star clusters from the survey of star clusters conducted in the South-West field of the M31 disk by Kodaira et al. (2004). Structural parameters of the clusters were derived by fitting the 2-D…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-12 I. Sableviciute , V. Vansevicius , K. Kodaira , D. Narbutis , R. Stonkute , A. Bridzius

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

We utilise the final catalogue from the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey to investigate the links between the globular cluster system and field halo in M31 at projected radii $R_p=25-150$ kpc. In this region the cluster radial density…

We present the discovery of four remote star clusters in M33, one of which is of an extended nature. Three of the clusters were discovered using survey data from the Isaac Newton Telescope Wide-Field Camera while one was discovered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Huxor , A. M. N. Ferguson , M. K. Barker , N. R. Tanvir , M. J. Irwin , S. C. Chapman , R. Ibata , G. Lewis

With the ultimate aim of distinguishing between various models describing the formation of galaxy halos (e.g. radial or multi-phase collapse, random mergers), we have completed a spectroscopic study of the globular cluster system of M31. We…

We derive structural parameters for ~2000 globular clusters in the giant Virgo elliptical M87 using extremely deep Hubble Space Telescope images in F606W (V) and F814W (I) taken with the ACS/WFC. The cluster scale sizes (half-light radii…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan P. Madrid , William E. Harris , John P. Blakeslee , Matias Gomez

We present internal surface-brightness profiles, based on HST/ACS imaging in the F606W bandpass, for 131 globular cluster (GC) candidates with luminosities 10^4 - 3 x 10^6 solar, in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128. Several structural…

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

Using deep photometric data from WFC@INT and [email protected] we measure the outer number density profiles of 19 stellar clusters located in the inner region of the Milky Way halo (within a Galactocentric distance range of 10-30 kpc) in order to…

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