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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 luminosity gap, dm12, between the first and second ranked galaxies in a sample of 59 massive galaxy clusters, using data from the Hale Telescope, HST, Chandra, and Spitzer. We find that the dm12 distribution, p(dm12), is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Graham P. Smith , Habib G. Khosroshahi , A. Dariush , A. J. R. Sanderson , T. J. Ponman , J. P. Stott , C. P. Haines , E. Egami , D. P. Stark

We analyze the galaxy population and dynamics of the galaxy cluster Abell 576 using 281 redshifts (230 new), R band CCD galaxy photometry over a 2h^{-1} Mpc by 2h^{-1} Mpc region centered on the cluster, an Einstein IPC image, and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Mohr , M. Geller , D. Fabricant , G. Wegner , J. Thorstensen , D. Richstone

We present a wide field survey of satellite galaxies in M106 (NGC 4258) covering a $1.7\degr \times 2\degr$ field around M106 using Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/MegaCam. We find 16 satellite galaxy candidates of M106. Eight of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Eunhyeuk Kim , Minsun Kim , Narae Hwang , Myung Gyoon Lee , Moo-Young Chun , Hong Bae Ann

We present a new catalogue of 55,121 groups and clusters centred on Luminous Red Galaxies from SDSS DR7 in the redshift range 0.15<z<0.4. We provide halo mass estimates for each of these groups derived from a calibration between the optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. M. Budzynski , S. Koposov , I. G. McCarthy , S. L. McGee , V. Belokurov

We present new, spatially resolved, surface photometry in FUV and NUV from images obtained by the $\textit{Galaxy Evolution Explorer}$ (GALEX), and IRAC1 (3.6 $\mu$m) photometry from the $\textit{Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in…

NGC 6397 is the second closest globular star cluster to the Sun. Using 5 days of time on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have constructed the deepest ever color-magnitude diagram for this cluster. We see a clear truncation in each of its two…

We present surface photometry results for a sample of eleven edge-on galaxies observed with the 6m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia). The photometric scale length, scale height, and central surface brightness of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitry Bizyaev , Serafim Kajsin

We present a photometric catalog (based on V and I photometry) of galaxies in the central regions of the Fornax galaxy cluster. Our 11 CCD fields cover 0.17 degrees in total. The limiting surface brightness is around 24 mag arsec^-2,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Hilker , M. Kissler-Patig , T. Richtler , L. Infante , H. Quintana

We use ACS data from the HST Treasury survey of the Coma cluster (z~0.02) to study the properties of barred galaxies in the Coma core, the densest environment in the nearby Universe. This study provides a complementary data point for…

We report the discovery of 47 low surface brightness objects in deep images of a 3 x 3 degree field centered on the Coma cluster, obtained with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The objects have central surface brightness mu(g,0) ranging from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham , Allison Merritt , Jielai Zhang , Marla Geha , Charlie Conroy

We study a sample of 43 early-type galaxies, selected from the SDSS because they appeared to have velocity dispersion > 350 km/s. High-resolution photometry in the SDSS i passband using HRC-ACS on board the HST shows that just less than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bernardi , J. B. Hyde , A. Fritz , R. K. Sheth , K. Gebhardt , R. C. Nichol

The presence of systematic modulations in the colour distributions in composite samples of globular clusters associated with galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax clusters has been reported in a previous work. In this paper we focus on the 27…

We present new HI observations of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 3741. This galaxy has an extremely extended HI disk, which allows us to trace the rotation curve out to unprecedented distances in terms of the optical disk: we reach 42 B-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Gentile , P. Salucci , U. Klein , G. L. Granato

We present surface brightness profiles for 56 of the 78 spiral galaxies observed in the HST/{\tt NICMOS/Camera-2} F160W snapshot survey introduced in Carollo et al. (2001; paper I), as well as surface brightness profiles for 23 objects out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Seigar , C. M. Carollo , M. Stiavelli , P. T. de Zeeuw , H. Dejonghe

We present optical and near-infrared colour maps of the central regions of bulges of S0 and spiral galaxies obtained with WFPC2 and NICMOS on the HST. By combined use of HST and ground-based data the colour information spans from a few tens…

Most massive galaxies show emission lines that can be characterized as LINERs. To what extent this emission is related to AGNs or to stellar processes is still an open question. In this paper, we analysed a sample of such galaxies to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 T. V. Ricci , J. E. Steiner , R. B. Menezes

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

We exploit the gravitational potential of massive cluster lenses to probe the emission line properties of six z=1 galaxies which appear as highly magnified luminous arcs. Using the GMOS integral field spectrograph together with detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Swinbank , R. Bower , G. P. Smith , Ian Smail , J. -P. Kneib , R. Ellis , D. Stark , A. Bunker

We compare the dynamical properties of two galaxies at identical positions on the Tully-Fisher relation, but with different surface brightnesses. We find that the low surface brightness galaxy UGC 128 has a higher mass-to-light ratio, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 W. J. G. de Blok , S. S. McGaugh