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We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-NIC3, near-infrared H-band photometry of globular clusters (GC) around NGC 4365 and NGC 1399 in combination with archival HST-WCPC2 and ACS optical data. We find that NGC 4365 has a number of…

Deep BV photometry for a large field covering the outer-halo globular cluster NGC 6229 is presented. For the first time, a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) reaching below the main sequence turnoff has been obtained for this cluster. Previous…

We investigate whether the globular clusters (GCs) in the recently published sample of GCs in the Fornax cluster by Bergond and coworkers are indeed intra-cluster objects. We combine the catalogue of radial velocity measurements by Bergond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Schuberth , T. Richtler , L. Bassino , M. Hilker

Using deep photometric data from WFC@INT and [email protected] we measure the outer number density profiles of 19 stellar clusters located in the inner region of the Milky Way halo (within a Galactocentric distance range of 10-30 kpc) in order to…

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

We have used the ACS camera on HST to obtain (V,I) photometry for 57,000 red-giant stars in the halo of the Leo elliptical NGC 3377. We use this sample of stars to derive the metallicity distribution function (MDF) for its halo field stars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 W. E. Harris , G. L. H. Harris , A. C. Layden , P. B. Stetson

The Sombrero galaxy, NGC 4594, contains the most numerous globular cluster system of any nearby spiral. It is an ideal candidate in which to study the globular clusters and contrast them with those in Local Group spirals. Here we present B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Duncan A. Forbes , Carl J. Grillmair , R. Chris Smith

NGC 6441 is one of the most massive and most metal-rich globular clusters in the galaxy, and is noted for an unusual extended horizontal branch which reaches past the instability strip. We find evidence that there are two different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-05 David A. Krogsrud , Eric L. Sandquist , Tadafumi Kato

We present a new photometric catalogue of the rich globular cluster (GC) system around M87, the brightest cluster galaxy in Virgo. Using archival Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) images in the ugriz bands, observed with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-24 L. J. Oldham , M. W. Auger

We present high signal-to-noise Keck spectra for 10 globular clusters associated with the giant Fornax elliptical NGC 1399, and compare measured line indices with current stellar population models. Our data convincingly demonstrate, for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Duncan A. Forbes , Michael A. Beasley , Jean P. Brodie , Markus Kissler-Patig

We investigate the unusually rich cluster system of NGC4636 with wide-field Washington photometry. The globular cluster luminosity function can be followed roughly 1 mag beyond the turn-over magnitude. This corresponds to a distance modulus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Boris Dirsch , Ylva Schuberth , Tom Richtler

We present the first results of a deep Chandra survey of the inner 1 degree of the Fornax cluster of galaxies. Ten 50 ksec pointings were obtained in a mosaic centered on the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1399 at the nominal cluster center.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. A. Scharf , D. R. Zurek , M. Bureau

We present a study of the old globular cluster (GC) population of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1427A using multi-wavelength VLT observations in U, B, V, I, H_alpha, J, H, and Ks bands under excellent observing conditions. We applied color…

Context. We investigate the stellar population and the origin of diffuse light around brightest cluster galaxies. Aims. We study the stellar population of the dynamically hot stellar halo of NGC 3311, the brightest galaxy in the Hydra I…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Coccato , O. Gerhard , M. Arnaboldi , G. Ventimiglia

Aims.We study the photometric and structural properties of the star cluster system in the late type Sc spiral NGC 3370. Methods. BVI observations from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board of HST are used to analyse in detail the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michele Cantiello , Enzo Brocato , John P. Blakeslee

By combining high-resolution (HST-WFPC2) and wide-field ground based (2.2m ESO-WFI) and space (GALEX) observations, we have collected a multi-wavelength photometric data base (ranging from the far UV to the near infrared) of the galactic…

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

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 color-magnitude diagrams (CMD) of the globular cluster NGC 6388 based on HST multiband photometry (F255W, F336W, F439W, F555W). In this paper we focus our attention on the peculiar horizontal branch of this cluster. After a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Busso , G. Piotto , S. Cassisi

We present the first color-magnitude study for Palomar 2, a distant and heavily obscured globular cluster near the Galactic anticenter. Our (V,V-I) color-magnitude diagram (CMD), obtained with the UH8K camera at the CFHT, reaches V(lim) =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. E. Harris , P. R. Durrell , G. R. Petitpas , T. M. Webb , S. C. Woodworth