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We investigate the globular cluster system around the low-luminosity S0 galaxy NGC 7457 with deep B, V, I photometry. From the V photometry the total number of globular clusters around the galaxy is estimated to be 178 +- 75. The specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chapelon , V. Buat , D. Burgarella , M. Kissler-Patig

We present new deep photometry of the rich globular cluster (GC) systems around the Brightest Cluster Galaxies UGC 9799 (Abell 2052) and UGC 10143 (Abell 2147), obtained with the HST ACS and WFC3 cameras. For comparison, we also present new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 W. E. Harris , S. M. Ciccone , G. M. Eadie , O. Y. Gnedin , D. Geisler , B. Rothberg , J. Bailin

Two studies that utilised the same HST/WFC3 imaging of NGC5846_UDG1 have reported quite different total counts for its globular cluster (GC) system, i.e. 54 $\pm$ 9 vs 33 $\pm$ 3 GCs. In both cases they counted all GCs, that met their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Duncan A. Forbes , Bas van Heumen , Yimeng Tang

We present an extension of our previous research on the early-type galaxy population of the Antlia cluster (d ~ 35 Mpc), achieving a total coverage of ~ 2.6 deg x deg and performing surface photometry for ~300 galaxies, 130 of which are new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-14 J. P. Calderón , L. P. Bassino , S. A. Cellone , Matías Gómez , J. P. Caso

We present new (B,I) photometry for the globular cluster systems in eight Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs), obtained with the ACS/WFC camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. In the very rich cluster systems that reside within these giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. E. Harris , B. C. Whitmore , D. Karakla , W. Okon , W. A. Baum , D. A. Hanes , J. J. Kavelaars

We have analysed the globular cluster (GC) system of the nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy VCC 1087 in the Virgo cluster, based on Keck/LRIS spectroscopy and archival HST/ACS imaging. We estimate VCC 1087 hosts a total population of 77+/-19…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael A. Beasley , Jay Strader , Jean P. Brodie , A. Javier Cenarro , M Geha

We use available multifilter Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 imaging of five (M81, M83, NGC 6946, M101, and M51) low inclination, nearby spiral galaxies to study ancient star cluster populations. M81 globular clusters (GC) have an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rupali Chandar , Bradley Whitmore , Myung Gyoon Lee

Deep HST/WFPC2 (V,I) photometry is used to investigate the globular cluster system (GCS) in NGC 4874, the central cD galaxy of the Coma cluster. The luminosity function of the clusters displays its normal Gaussian-like shape and turnover…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. E. Harris , J. J. Kavelaars , D. A. Hanes , J. E. Hesser , C. J. Pritchet

We present preliminary results of a wide field study of the globular cluster system of NGC4594, the Sombrero galaxy. The galaxy was observed in B, V, and R using the Wide Field Imager on the ESO 2.2m telescope. Using color and shape…

We present the results of a study of the globular cluster systems of 6 massive spiral galaxies, originally cataloged as low surface brightness galaxies but here shown to span a wide range of central surface brightness values, including two…

We use Hubble Space Telescope imaging to study the globular cluster system of the Virgo Cluster ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG) VCC 615. We select globular cluster candidates through a combination of size and color, while simultaneously rejecting…

Context: The combination of optical and near-infrared (NIR) colours has the potential to break the age/metallicity degeneracy and offers a better metallicity sensitivity than optical colours alone. Previous studies of extragalactic globular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. L. Chies-Santos , S. S. Larsen , E. M. Wehner , H. Kuntschner , J. Strader , J. P. Brodie

We present the results of a wide-field photometric study of the globular cluster (GC) system of the edge-on Sab spiral NGC7814. This is the first spiral to be fully analyzed from our survey of the GC systems of a large sample of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Rhode , S. E. Zepf

Properties of 53 globular cluster systems are investigated. Strong correlations are found between parent galaxy luminosity and both the slope of the radial density profile for clusters and the width of the cluster color (metallicity)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sidney van den Bergh

New photometric and long-slit spectroscopic observations are presented for NGC 7113, PGC 1852, and PGC 67207 which are three bright galaxies residing in low-density environments. The surface-brightness distribution is analysed from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-16 E. M. Corsini , G. A. Wegner , J. Thomas , R. P. Saglia , R. Bender

CFHT Megacam data in (g',r',i') are used to obtain deep, wide-field photometry of the globular cluster system (GCS) around M87. A total of 6200 GCs brighter than M_I = -8.5 are included in the study, essentially containing almost the entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 William E. Harris

We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry in optical (F475X) and near-infrared (F110W) bands of the globular cluster (GC) systems of the inner halos of a sample of 15 massive elliptical galaxies. The targets are selected from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-06 Kate Hartman , William E. Harris , John P. Blakeslee , Chung-Pei Ma , Jenny E. Greene

NGC 2419 is one of the remotest star clusters in the Milky Way halo and its exact nature is yet unclear: While it has traits reminiscent of a globular cluster (GC), its large radius and suggestions of an abundance spread have fueled the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-09 Andreas Koch , Matthias Frank , Sofia Feltzing , Daniel Aden , Nikolay Kacharov , Mark I. Wilkinson

We report on the {\it Chandra} observations of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1399, concentrating on the X-ray sources identified with globular clusters (GCs). A large fraction of the 2-10 keV X-ray emission in the $8' \times 8'$ {\it Chandra}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Lorella Angelini , Michael Loewenstein , Richard F. Mushotzky

The stellar populations in a stellar complex in NGC 6946 are analyzed on images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The complex is peculiar by its very high density of stars and clusters and…