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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

This study follows a recent analysis of the galaxy luminosity functions and colour-magnitude red sequences in the Coma cluster (Adami et al. 2007). We analyze here the distribution of very faint galaxies and globular clusters in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Adami , J. P. Picat , F. Durret , A. Mazure , R. Pello , M. West

We present a study of the spatial and color distributions of four early-type galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems observed as part of our ongoing wide-field imaging survey. We use $BVR$ KPNO-4m+MOSAIC imaging data to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan R. Hargis , Katherine L. Rhode

As old stellar systems, globular clusters (GCs) are key fossil tracers of galaxy formation and interaction histories. This paper is part of the LEWIS project, an integral-field spectroscopic survey of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the…

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 present results from a wide-field imaging study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of a sample of edge-on, Sb-Sc spiral galaxies ~7-20 Mpc away. This study is part of a larger survey of the ensemble properties of the GC populations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katherine L. Rhode , Stephen E. Zepf , Arunav Kundu , Aaron N. Larner

The HST ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey is a deep two passband imaging survey of the nearest very rich cluster of galaxies, covering a range of galaxy density environments. The imaging is complemented by a recent wide field redshift survey…

We study the Globular Cluster (GC) system of the nearby elliptical galaxy M87 using the newly available dataset with accurate kinematics (Strader et al.2011). We find evidence for three distinct sub-populations of GCs in terms of colours,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Agnello , N. W. Evans , A. J. Romanowsky , J. P. Brodie

We present a novel method combining existing cosmological simulations and orbital integration to study the hierarchical assembly of globular cluster (GC) populations in the Milky Way (MW). Our method models the growth and evolution of GC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Pierre Boldrini , Paola Di Matteo , Chervin Laporte , Oscar Agertz , Sergey Khoperskov , Giulia Pagnini

We investigate here populations of cataclysmic variables (CVs) in a set of 288 globular cluster (GC) models evolved with the MOCCA code. This is by far the largest sample of GC models ever analysed with respect to CVs. Contrary to what has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Diogo Belloni , Mirek Giersz , Liliana E. Rivera Sandoval , Abbas Askar , Paweł Ciecieląg

We use high-precision photometry of red-giant-branch (RGB) stars in 57 Galactic globular clusters (GCs), mostly from the `Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters', to identify and characterize their…

We report the discovery of 854 ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster using deep R band images, with partial B, i, and Halpha band coverage, obtained with the Subaru telescope. Many of them (332) are Milky Way-sized with very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-08 Jin Koda , Masafumi Yagi , Hitomi Yamanoi , Yutaka Komiyama

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

Compact groups of galaxies (CGs) show members with morphological disturbances, mainly products of galaxy-galaxy interactions, thus making them ideal systems to study galaxy evolution, in high-density environment. To understand how this…

We have investigated the global properties of the globular cluster (GC) systems of three early-type galaxies: the Virgo elliptical NGC4406, the field elliptical NGC3379, and the field S0 galaxy NGC4594. These galaxies were observed as part…

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

Deep images of 10 early-type galaxies in low-density environments have been obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The global properties of the globular cluster (GC) systems of the galaxies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Cho , R. M. Sharples , J. P. Blakeslee , S. E. Zepf , A. Kundu , H. -S. Kim , S. -J. Yoon

We present a homogeneous catalog of 275 large (effective radius $\gtrsim$ 5.3 arcsec) ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates lying within an $\approx$ 290 square degree region surrounding the Coma cluster. The catalog results from our…

Globular clusters (GCs) are powerful tracers of galaxy assembly, frequently used to identify accreted substructure and reconstruct hierarchical merger histories. With advances in GC formation models and cosmological simulations, we can now…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Finn A. Pal , Sarah L. Martell , Elizabeth J. Iles

There have been increasing theoretical speculations and observational indications that certain globular clusters (GCs) could contain a sizeable population of stellar mass black holes (BHs). In this paper, we shortlist at least 29 Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Abbas Askar , Manuel Arca Sedda , Mirek Giersz

Context. Globular clusters (GCs) carry information about the formation histories and gravitational fields of their host galaxies. B\'ilek et al. (2019, BSR19 hereafter) reported that the radial profiles of the volume number density of GCs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Michal Bílek , Michael Hilker , Florent Renaud , Tom Richtler , Avinash Chaturvedi , Srdjan Samurović