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Globular clusters (GCs) are often used to estimate the dark matter content of galaxies, especially dwarfs, where other kinematic tracers are lacking. These estimates typically assume spherical symmetry and dynamical equilibrium, assumptions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jessica E. Doppel , Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Mario G. Abadi , Eric W. Peng , Elisa Toloba

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

A comprehensive statistical analysis of the relationship between the chemical and spatially kinematic parameters of the globular clusters of the Galaxy has been performed. The data of the author's compilation catalog contain astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 V. A. Marsakov , V. V. Koval' , M. L. Gozha

In this paper we describe the photometric and spectroscopic properties of multiple populations in seven northern globular clusters. In this study we employ precise ground based photometry from the private collection of Stetson, space…

We present a catalog of 422 galaxies with published measurements of their globular cluster (GC) populations. Of these, 248 are E galaxies, 93 are S0 galaxies, and 81 are spirals or irregulars. Among various correlations of the total number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 William E. Harris , Gretchen L. H. Harris , Matthew Alessi

Multiple populations are ubiquitous in the old massive globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way. It is still unclear how they arose during the formation of a GC. The topic of iron and metallicity variations has recently attracted attention…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 M. Latour , S. Kamann , S. Martocchia , T. -O. Husser , S. Saracino , S. Dreizler

The location of Galactic Globular Clusters' (GC) stars on the horizontal branch (HB) should mainly depend on GC metallicity, the "first parameter", but it is actually the result of complex interactions between the red giant branch (RGB)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 M. Tailo , A. P. Milone , E. P. Lagioia , F. D'Antona , A. F. Marino , E. Vesperini , V. Caloi , P. Ventura , E. Dondoglio , G. Cordoni

We explore how diffuse stellar light and globular clusters (GCs) can be used to trace the matter distribution of their host halo using an observational methodology. For this, we use 117 simulated dark matter (DM) haloes from the $(34.4~\rm…

The metallicity distributions of globular cluster (GC) systems in galaxies are a critical test of any GC formation scenario. In this work, we investigate the predicted GC metallicity distributions of galaxies in the MOdelling Star cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-26 Joel Pfeffer , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Nate Bastian , Robert A. Crain , Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez

The formation and growth of globular cluster systems (GCSs) is closely related to the evolutionary processes experienced by their host galaxies. In particular, their radial distributions scale with several properties of the galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Juan Pablo Caso , Bruno J. De Bórtoli , Ana I. Ennis , Lilia P. Bassino

The HST UV Survey of Globular Clusters (GCs) has investigated GCs and their stellar populations. In previous papers of this series we have introduced a pseudo two-color diagram, "chromosome map" (ChM), that maximises the separation between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , A. Renzini , F. D'Antona , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , G. Cordoni , E. P. Lagioia , G. Piotto , M. Tailo

The discovery of a large population of intra-cluster star clusters in the central region of the Hydra I and Centaurus galaxy clusters is presented. Based on deep VLT photometry (V,I), many star clusters have been identified not only around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Hilker

We use the HB morphology of 48 Galactic GCs to study the radial distributions of the different stellar populations known to exist in globular clusters. Assuming that the (extremely) blue HB stars correspond to stars enriched in Helium and…

In this work we determine the total globular cluster (GC) counts and globular cluster system (GCS) total mass estimates for 27 extremely massive elliptical galaxies. The GC 2D spatial distributions of these galaxies were created from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 Veronika Dornan , William E. Harris

Galactic globular clusters (GCs) are now known to host multiple populations displaying particular abundance variations. The different populations within a GC can be well distinguished following their position in the pseudo two-colors…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 M. Latour , T. -O. Husser , B. Giesers , S. Kamann , F. Goettgens , S. Dreizler , J. Brinchmann , N. Bastian , M. Wendt , P. M. Weilbacher , N. S. Molinski

In this paper we present the second and final part of a large and photometrically homogeneous CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) data base, comprising 52 nearby Galactic globular clusters (GGC) imaged in the V and I bands. The catalog has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Rosenberg , A. Aparicio , I. Saviane , G. Piotto

We present a photometric study of the globular cluster (GC) system associated to the lenticular galaxy (S0) NGC 6861, which is located in a relatively low density environment. It is based on GEMINI/GMOS images in the filters g', r', i' of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Carlos G. Escudero , Favio R. Faifer , Lilia P. Bassino , Juan Pablo Calderon , Juan Pablo Caso

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…

Many globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way (MW) have been studied in recent years, especially in hidden regions such as those of the Galactic bulge. Our main goal is to understand what we can learn if we include these new objects into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-20 E. R. Garro , D. Minniti , J. G. Fernández-Trincado

We present new metallicity estimates for globular cluster (GC) candidates in the Sd spiral NGC 300, one of the nearest spiral galaxies outside the Local Group. We have obtained optical spectroscopy for 44 Sculptor Group GC candidates with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-24 J. B. Nantais , J. P. Huchra , P. Barmby , K. A. G. Olsen