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Recent observations have highlighted a significant population of faint but large (r_eff>1.5 kpc) galaxies in the Coma cluster. The origin of these Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) remains puzzling, as the interpretation of the observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Remco F. J. van der Burg , Adam Muzzin , Henk Hoekstra

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) exhibit low surface brightness, but their optical extent is comparable to Milky Way-type galaxies. Due to their peculiar properties, it remains ambiguous whether UDGs are the descendants of massive galaxies or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 Orsolya E. Kovacs , Akos Bogdan , Rebecca E. A. Canning

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are unusual galaxies with low luminosities, similar to classical dwarf galaxies, but sizes up to $\sim\!5$ larger than expected for their mass. Some UDGs have large populations of globular clusters (GCs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Sungsoon Lim , Eric W. Peng , Patrick Cote , Laura V. Sales , Mark den Brok , John P. Blakeslee , Puragra Guhathakurta

We present spectra of 5 ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the vicinity of the Coma Cluster obtained with the Multi-Object Double Spectrograph on the Large Binocular Telescope. We confirm 4 of these as members of the cluster, quintupling the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Jennifer Kadowaki , Dennis Zaritsky , R. L. Donnerstein

This is the first in a series of papers on the properties of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in clusters of galaxies. We present an updated catalog of UDGs in the Coma cluster using \textit{g}- and \textit{r}-band images obtained with Hyper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-17 Jose Miguel Bautista , Jin Koda , Masafumi Yagi , Yutaka Komiyama , Hitomi Yamanoi

We present a homogeneous catalog of 275 large (effective radius $\gtrsim$ 5.3 arcsec) ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates lying within an $\approx$ 290 square degree region surrounding the Coma cluster. The catalog results from our…

Ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) reveal extreme properties. Here we compile the largest study to date of 85 globular cluster (GC) systems around UDGs in the Coma cluster, using new deep ground-based imaging of the known UDGs and existing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Duncan A. Forbes , Adebusola Alabi , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jean P. Brodie , Nobuo Arimoto

We report the discovery of 47 low surface brightness objects in deep images of a 3 x 3 degree field centered on the Coma cluster, obtained with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The objects have central surface brightness mu(g,0) ranging from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham , Allison Merritt , Jielai Zhang , Marla Geha , Charlie Conroy

We use Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy to confirm the cluster membership of 16 ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster, bringing the total number of spectroscopically con- firmed UDGs to 24. We also identify a new cluster background UDG.…

We present a catalogue of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies in the Coma cluster obtained from deep Subaru/Suprime-Cam V and R-band imaging data within a region of $\sim$4 deg$^2$. We increase the number of LSB galaxies presented in Yagi…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-18 Adebusola B. Alabi , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Duncan A. Forbes , Jean P. Brodie , Nobuhiro Okabe

We probe the formation scenarios and the active galactic nuclei (AGN) occupation fraction of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the nearby Coma cluster by utilizing XMM-Newton observations of 779 out of 854 UDG candidates identified by Subaru…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 M. S. Mirakhor , S. A. Walker

We study the presence of tidal features associated with ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in galaxy clusters. Specifically, we stack deep Subaru images of UDGs in the Coma cluster to determine whether they show position angle twists at large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Lamiya Mowla , Pieter van Dokkum , Allison Merritt , Roberto Abraham , Masafumi Yagi , Jin Koda

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are spatially extended, low surface brightness stellar systems with regular elliptical-like morphology found in a wide range of environments. Studies of the internal dynamics and dark matter content of UDGs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Igor Chilingarian , Anton Afanasiev , Kirill Grishin , Daniel Fabricant , Sean Moran

We measure NUV aperture magnitudes from {\sl GALEX} images for 258 ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates drawn from the initial SMUDGes survey of $\sim 300$ square degrees surrounding, and including, the Coma galaxy cluster. For the vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-15 Pranjal RS , Dennis Zaritsky , Richard Donnerstein , Kristine Spekkens

In this second paper of the series, we study with new Keck/DEIMOS spectra the stellar populations of seven spectroscopically confirmed ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster. We find intermediate to old ages (~ 7Gyr), low…

We present Hubble Space Telescope imaging of two ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) with measured stellar velocity dispersions in the Coma cluster. The galaxies, Dragonfly 44 and DFX1, have effective radii of 4.7 kpc and 3.5 kpc and velocity…

We recently identified a population of low surface brightness objects in the field of the z=0.023 Coma cluster, using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. Here we present Keck spectroscopy of one of the largest of these "ultra-diffuse galaxies"…

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are spatially extended, low surface brightness stellar systems with regular elliptical-like morphology found in large numbers in galaxy clusters and groups. Studies of the internal dynamics and dark matter…

Observations of nearby galaxy clusters at low surface brightness have identified galaxies with low luminosities, but sizes as large as L* galaxies, leading them to be dubbed "ultra-diffuse galaxies" (UDGs). The survival of UDGs in dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Eric W. Peng , Sungsoon Lim

Many ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have been discovered in the Coma cluster, and there is evidence that some, notably Dragonfly 44, have Milky Way-like dynamical masses despite dwarf-like stellar masses. We used X-ray, UV, and optical data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Chris H. Lee , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Elena Gallo
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