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Deep imaging data from the Keck II telescope are employed to study the globular cluster (GC) populations in the cores of six rich Abell clusters. The sample includes A754, A1644, A2124, A2147, A2151, and A2152, and spans the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John P. Blakeslee

MeerKAT imaging of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) reveals 1.28 GHz continuum emission at the locations of 20 known millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We use time series and spectral imaging to investigate the image-domain characteristics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Ian Heywood

We report results of one of the most sensitive pulsar surveys to date targeting the innermost region of the Galactic Center (GC) using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at X-band (8--12GHz) using data from the Breakthrough…

Hubble Space Telescope photometry from the ACS/WFC and WFPC2 cameras is used to detect and measure globular clusters (GCs) in the central region of the rich Perseus cluster of galaxies. A detectable population of Intragalactic GCs is found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-03 William E. Harris , Courtney J. Mulholland

Stars in globular clusters (GCs) lose a non negligible amount of mass during their post-main sequence evolution. This material is then expected to build up a substantial intra-cluster medium (ICM) within the GC. However, the observed gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 W. Chantereau , P. Biernacki , M. Martig , N. Bastian , M. Salaris , R. Teyssier

Stars in globular clusters lose mass through slow stellar winds that are retained by the stellar cluster and contribute to build up a non negligible intracluster medium over time. However, all the observations so far found only a negligible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 William Chantereau

In galaxy clusters, hierarchical assembly predicts the formation of stellar substructures and intracluster light (ICL), a diffuse stellar component tracing the global cluster potential. Because these features are extremely faint,…

It is expected that specific globular clusters can contain up to a hundred of millisecond pulsars. These pulsars can accelerate leptons at the shock waves originated in collisions of the pulsar winds and/or inside the pulsar magnetospheres.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek

Although only 22 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are currently known to exist in the globular cluster (GC) 47 Tucanae, this cluster may harbor 30-60 MSPs, or even up to ~200. In this Letter, we model the pulsed curvature radiation (CR) gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-30 C. Venter , O. C. de Jager

The Galactic Center (GC), with its high density of massive stars, is a promising target for radio transient searches. In particular, the discovery and timing of a pulsar orbiting the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of our Galaxy will…

Terzan 5 is a rich globular cluster within the galactic bulge that contains 39 known millisecond pulsars, the largest known population of any globular cluster. The Terzan 5 pulsars are faint, so that individual observations of most of the…

Recently, both stellar mass-segregation and binary-fractions were uniformly measured on relatively large samples of Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs). Simulations show that both sizeable binary-star populations and Intermediate-Mass Black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Mario Pasquato , Paolo Miocchi , Bong Won Sohn , Young-Wook Lee

High sensitivity searches of globular clusters (GC) for radio pulsars by improved pulsar search algorithms and sustained pulsar timing observations have so far yielded some 140 pulsars in more than two dozen GCs. The observed distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Manjari Bagchi , Alak Ray

The paper investigates the properties of the dust mass loss in stars populating the giant branch of the globular cluster 47 Tuc, by combining ISOCAM and DENIS data. Raster maps of 5 fields covering areas ranging from 4 x 4 to 15 x 15…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 A. Ramdani , A. Jorissen

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

We use radial velocities of member stars and cluster surface brightness profiles to non-parametrically determine the mass density profiles and isotropic phase-space distribution functions $f(E)$ for the globular clusters M15 (NGC7078),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Karl Gebhardt , Philippe Fischer

We investigate the old globular cluster (GC) population of 68 faint (Mv>-16 mag) dwarf galaxies located in the halo regions of nearby (<12 Mpc) loose galaxy groups and in the field environment based on archival HST/ACS images in F606W and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iskren Y. Georgiev , Thomas H. Puzia , Michael Hilker , Paul Goudfrooij

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

We present the discovery of 24 pulsars in 15 Globular Clusters (GCs) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These include the first pulsar discoveries in M2, M10, and M14. Most of the new systems are either…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Xiaoyun Ma , Kuo Liu , Lin Wang , Jintao Luo , Zhen Yan , Scott Ransom , Duncan Lorimer , Di Li , Peng Jiang

We present a follow-up study focused on cluster-scale diffuse radio emissions in 115 galaxy clusters in the Southern sky, using full-resolution (7.8") and tapered low-resolution (15") images from the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey…