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We present a new photometric catalogue of the rich globular cluster (GC) system around M87, the brightest cluster galaxy in Virgo. Using archival Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) images in the ugriz bands, observed with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-24 L. J. Oldham , M. W. Auger

We study the size and structure of globular clusters (GC) systems of 118 early-type galaxies from the NGVS, MATLAS, and ACSVCS surveys. Fitting S\'ersic profiles, we investigate the relationship between effective radii of GC systems ($R_{e,…

The observed characteristics of globular cluster (GC) systems, such as metallicity distributions, are commonly used to place constraints on galaxy formation models. However, obtaining reliable metallicity values is particularly difficult…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Alexa Villaume , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jean Brodie , Jay Strader

We present a study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of nearby elliptical and S0 galaxies at a variety of wavelengths from the X-ray to the infrared. Our analysis shows that roughly half of the low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arunav Kundu , Thomas J. Maccarone , Stephen E. Zepf

We present ultraviolet (UV) integrated colors of 44 Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) observed with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) in both FUV and NUV bands. This data-base is the largest homogeneous catalog of UV colors ever…

The mean color of globular clusters (GCs) in early-type galaxies is in general bluer than the integrated color of halo field stars in host galaxies. Metal-rich GCs often appear more associated with field stars than metal-poor GCs, yet show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chul Chung , Sang-Yoon Lee , Suk-Jin Yoon , Young-Wook Lee

There is compelling observational evidence that globular clusters (GCs) are quite complex objects. A growing body of photometric results indicate that the evolutionary sequences are not simply isochrones in the observational plane -as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Angela Bragaglia

An analysis of globular cluster systems associated with galaxies included in the Virgo and Fornax HST Advanced Camera Surveys reveals distinct (g-z) colour modulation patterns. These features appear on composite samples of globular clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Juan C. Forte

We report on a large-scale study of the distribution of globular clusters (GCs) throughout the Virgo cluster, based on photometry from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey, a large imaging survey covering Virgo's primary subclusters to…

Metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) are our local link to the earliest epochs of star formation and galaxy building. Studies of extragalactic GC systems using deep, high-quality imaging have revealed a small but significant slope to the…

Intra-cluster (IC) populations are expected to be a natural result of the hierarchical assembly of clusters, yet their low space densities make them difficult to detect and study. We present the first definitive kinematic detection of an IC…

Globular Cluster (GC) systems of most early-type galaxies show bimodal optical color distributions, yet their Luminosity Functions (LFs) look like simple Gaussians with turn-over magnitudes used for determination of distances and the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben

The optical colors of globular clusters (GCs) in most large early-type galaxies are bimodal. Blue and red GCs show a sharp difference in the radial profile of their surface number density in the sense that red GCs are more centrally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Sang-Yoon Lee , Chul Chung , Suk-Jin Yoon

We use high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging data of dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume ($\lesssim 11$ Mpc) to parameterise 19 newly discovered nuclear star clusters (NSCs). Most of the clusters have stellar masses of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Nils Hoyer , Nadine Neumayer , Anil C. Seth , Iskren Y. Georgiev , Jenny E. Greene

We measure the half-light radii of globular clusters (GCs) in 43 galaxies from the ACS Fornax Cluster Survey (ACSFCS). We use these data to extend previous work in which the environmental dependencies of the half-light radii of GCs in early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Karen L. Masters , Andres Jordan , Patrick Cote , Laura Ferrarese , John P. Blakeslee , Leopolde Infante , Eric Peng , Simona Mei , Michael J. West

We report the discovery of 4 candidate intracluster globular clusters (IGCs) in a single deep HST ACS field of the Virgo Cluster. We show that each cluster is roughly spherical, has a magnitude near the peak of the Virgo globular cluster…

Globular clusters (GCs) are among the oldest stellar systems in the universe. As such, GCs population are valuable fossil tracers of galaxy formation and interaction history. We use the multi-band wide-field images obtained with the VST to…

The majority of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) contain multiple stellar populations displaying specific chemical abundance variations. In particular, GCs generally contain a `primordial' population with abundances similar to field stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 E. Leitinger , H. Baumgardt , I. Cabrera-Ziri , M. Hilker , E. Pancino

We have analyzed archival HST/ACS images in Sloan g and z of the globular cluster (GC) systems of 53 ellipticals in the Virgo Cluster, spanning massive galaxies to dEs. Among the new results are: (1) In the gEs M87 and NGC 4649, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jay Strader , Jean P. Brodie , Lee Spitler , Michael A. Beasley

In an effort to probe the globular cluster (GC) system of an isolated elliptical galaxy, a comprehensive analysis of the NGC 821 GC system was performed. New imaging from the WIYN Mini-Mosaic imager, supplemented with Hubbl e Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lee R. Spitler , Duncan A. Forbes , Jay Strader , Jean P. Brodie , Jay S. Gallagher