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We present high spatial resolution, far ultraviolet (FUV) F140LP observations of 12 massive globular clusters in M 31 obtained using the ACS/SBC on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These observations resolve the cluster profiles to scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Mark Peacock , Stephen Zepf , Thomas Maccarone , Arunav Kundu , Christian Knigge , Andrea Dieball , Jay Strader

We investigate the integrated far-ultraviolet (FUV) emission from globular clusters. We present new FUV photometry of M~87's clusters based on archival HST WFPC2 F170W observations. We use these data to test the reliability of published…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Mark B. Peacock , Stephen E. Zepf , Arunav Kundu , Julia Chael

We present an observational far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) study of the core region of the globular cluster NGC 6397. The observations were obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS, FUV), and the Wide Field Camera 3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Andrea Dieball , Armin Rasekh , Christian Knigge , Michael Shara , David Zurek

Globular clusters are gravitationally bound stellar systems containing on the order of 100,000 stars. Due to the high stellar densities in the cores of these clusters, close encounters and even physical collisions between stars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Knigge

We present a far-ultraviolet (FUV) study of the globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099). The images were obtained using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS/SBC, F150LP, FUV) and the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2, F300W, UV) which were both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Santana Mansfield , Andrea Dieball , Pavel Kroupa , Christian Knigge , David R. Zurek , Michael Shara , Knox S. Long

Globular cluster systems (GCS) frequently show a bi-modal distribution of the cluster integrated colours. This work explores the arguments to support the idea that the same feature is shared by the diffuse stellar population of the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan C. Forte , Favio Faifer , Doug Geisler

Globular clusters represent stellar laboratories where observations can be used to validate models of stellar evolution. In this study, we put forth new ultraviolet (UV) photometric results of stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Rashi Jain , S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh

Quillen et al. and O'Dea et al. carried out a Spitzer study of a sample of 62 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) from the ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample chosen based on their elevated H-alpha flux. We present Hubble Space Telescope Advanced…

We used observations obtained with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on board the AstroSat satellite to measure the integrated far-ultraviolet (FUV) and optical (V) magnitudes of 30 Galactic globular clusters (GCs). We classified the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Sonika Piridi , Ranjan Kumar , Divya Pandey , Ananta C. Pradhan

We investigate the outer halo globular cluster population of NGC 1399. This study uses wide-field imaging of this cluster system, which covers the largest area studied with CCD photometry until now. The cluster system of NGC 1399 is found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Dirsch , D. Geisler , T. Richtler , J. C. Forte

We present a photometric investigation of the globular cluster population of NGC 1399, the central galaxy in the Fornax cluster, in Washington C and Kron R filters within a field of 36'x36'. This is the largest area around this galaxy ever…

We use the Hubble Space Telescope ACS/SBC and Very Large Telescope FORS cameras to observe the Brightest Cluster Galaxies in Abell 2597 and Abell 2204 in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) F150LP and optical U, B, V, R, I Bessel filters. The FUV and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. B. R. Oonk , N. A. Hatch , W. Jaffe , M. N. Bremer , R. J. van weeren

We present ultraviolet photometry for globular clusters (GCs) in M31 from 15 square deg of imaging using the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). We detect 200 and 94 GCs with certainty in the near-ultraviolet (NUV; 1750 - 2750 Angstroms) and…

The relation between the Ultra Compact Objects (UCOs) recently discovered in the Fornax cluster (Drinkwater et al. 2000, Hilker et al. 1999) and the brightest globular clusters associated with the central galaxy NGC 1399 has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steffen Mieske , Michael Hilker , Leopoldo Infante

Far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations with the Hubble Space Telescope are an excellent way to find and study the hot, blue stellar populations in the cores of globular clusters. These populations include dynamically-formed blue stragglers and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Knigge , D. R. Zurek , M. M. Shara , K. S. Long , R. L. Gilliland , P. A. Charles

We have obtained deep photometry of NGC 1199 (in HCG 22) and NGC 6868 (in the Telescopium group). Both galaxies are the optically brightest galaxies of their groups. Our analysis of B and R images taken with the Keck II and the VLT/ESO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. Da Rocha , C. Mendes de Oliveira , M. Bolte , B. L. Ziegler , T. H. Puzia

We investigate the effect of stellar density on the ultraviolet (UV) emission from M31's globular clusters (GCs). Published far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) colours from Galaxy Evolution and Explorer (GALEX) observations are used as a probe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark B. Peacock , Thomas J. Maccarone , Andrea Dieball , Christian Knigge

We examine the properties of a previously discovered population of globular clusters in the heart of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 1185 that might be intergalactic in nature. Deep images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael J. West , Andres Jordan , John P. Blakeslee , Patrick Cote , Michael D. Gregg , Marianne Takamiya , Ronald O. Marzke

In recent years, increasing evidence for chemical complexity and multiple stellar populations in massive globular clusters (GCs) has emerged, including extreme horizontal branches (EHBs) and UV excess. Our goal is to improve our…

We have obtained HST/STIS far- and near-UV photometry of globular clusters in four fields in the gE galaxy M87. To a limit of m(FUV) = 25 we detect a total of 66 globular clusters (GCs) in common with the deep HST optical-band study of…

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