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The kinematical and spatial properties of the metal-rich globular clusters in the Galaxy ([Fe/H] > -0.8) indicates that these objects do not comprise a homogeneous population. Three subsystems are identified. The highest-mass clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Burkert , G. Smith

We present new observations of a 2' field in the north-eastern spiral arm of M31. In the 0.8 x 3.6 kpc mosaicked region, we have detected six distinct, large complexes of molecular gas, most of which lie along the spiral arm dust lane or in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kartik Sheth , Stuart N. Vogel , Christine D. Wilson , T. M. Dame

We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of the Milky Way satellite Laevens 3. Using MegaCam/CFHT g and i photometry and Keck II/DEIMOS multi-object spectroscopy, we refine the structural and stellar properties of the system. The…

We study the stellar cluster population in two adjacent fields in the nearby, face-on spiral galaxy, M83, using WFC3/HST imaging. The clusters are selected through visual inspection to be centrally concentrated, symmetric, and resolved on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. Bastian , A. Adamo , M. Gieles , E. Silva Villa , H. J. G. L. M Lamers , S. S. Larsen , L. J. Smith , I. S. Konstantopoulos , E. Zackrisson

We use a sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Extended Source Catalog to refine a matched filter method of finding galaxy clusters that takes into account each galaxy's position, magnitude, and redshift if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Jeffrey A. Blackburne , Christopher S. Kochanek

Most Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) exhibit measurable flattening, even if on a very low level. Both cluster rotation and tidal fields are thought to cause this flattening. Nevertheless, rotation has only been confirmed in a handful of…

Data obtained with the NICMOS instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have been used to determine the H-band luminosity function (LF) and mass function (MF) of three stellar fields in the globular cluster M15, located ~7' from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Pasquali , G. De Marchi , L. Pulone , M. S. Brigas

There are few direct measurements of ICM velocity structure, despite its importance for understanding clusters. We present a detailed analysis of the velocity structure of the Centaurus cluster using XMM-Newton observations. Using a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-21 E. Gatuzz , J. S. Sanders , R. Canning , K. Dennerl , A. C. Fabian , C. Pinto , H. Russell , T. Tamura , S. A. Walker , J. ZuHone

The radial velocities of the 13 globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud have a dispersion of 28 km s$^{-1}$ relative to the HI rotation curve of the LMC, compared to a dispersion of 30 km s$^{-1}$ with regard to the mean globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sidney van den Bergh

The authors of the article set out to investigate the motion of Globular Star Clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way relative to the plane and center of the Galaxy. For this study, we used data from 164 Galactic Globular Clusters derived from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-25 G. S. Karapetian , A. P. Mahtessian , M. A. Hovhannisyan , L. A. Mahtessian

Globular clusters (GCs) are dense star clusters found in all massive galaxies. Recent work has established that they follow a tight relation between their internal stellar velocity dispersion $\sigma$ and luminosity, enabling accurate…

We analyze post-refurbishment Hubble Space Telescope images of four globular clusters in M31. The ability to resolve stars to below the horizontal branch permits us to use star counts to extend the surface brightness profiles determined…

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

We present new high signal-to-noise spectroscopic data on the M31 globular cluster system, obtained with the Hectospec multifiber spectrograph on the 6.5m MMT. More than 300 clusters have been observed at a resolution of 5A. The primary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Nelson Caldwell , Ricardo Schiavon , Heather Morrison , James A. Rose , Paul Harding

The majority of observed mass-to-light ratios of globular clusters are too low to be explained by `canonical' cluster models, in which dynamical effects are not accounted for. Moreover, these models do not reproduce a recently reported…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

We present results from a Keck spectroscopic survey of red giants in a field near M31's major axis, ~34kpc in projection from the nucleus, near the globular cluster G1. We use multislit LRIS spectroscopy to measure the CaII triplet in 41…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David B. Reitzel , Puragra Guhathakurta , R. Michael Rich

We have measured radial velocities for 196 globular clusters (GCs) around M49, the brightest member of the Virgo Cluster. Combined with published data, they bring the total number of GCs with measured radial velocities in this galaxy to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Cote , Dean E. McLaughlin , Judith G. Cohen , John P. Blakeslee

We present an updated catalogue of M31 globular clusters (GCs) based on images from the Wide Field CAMera (WFCAM) on the UK Infrared Telescope and from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our catalogue includes new, self-consistent ugriz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mark B. Peacock , Thomas J. Maccarone , Christian Knigge , Arunav Kundu , Christopher Z. Waters , Stephen E. Zepf , David R. Zurek

We report results on the kinematics of Milky Way (MW) globular clusters (GCs) based on updated space velocities for nearly the entire GC population. We found that a 3D space with the semi-major axis, the eccentricity and the inclination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 Andrés E. Piatti

(Abridged) Aims: We obtained VLT/FLAMES+UVES high-resolution, fibre-fed spectroscopy (FFS) of five young massive clusters in M83 (NGC 5236). This forms the basis of a pilot study testing the feasibility of using FFS to measure the velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 SL Moll , R de Grijs , P Anders , PA Crowther , SS Larsen , LJ Smith , SF Portegies Zwart