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The nature of the dwarf galaxy population as a function of location in the cluster and within different environments is investigated. We have previously described the results of a search for low surface brightness objects in data drawn from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Sabatini , J. I. Davies , S. Roberts , R. Scaramella

We present the photometric and spectroscopic results of a survey done in a wide-field area of nearby groups and poor clusters. The main goals are identifying and characterizing the properties of low-surface-brightness dwarf galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. R. Carrasco , C. Mendes de Oliveira , L. Infante

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 deep two-colour photometry of two rich clusters at z=0.18, A665 and A1689. We use these data to construct number counts as a function of magnitude in the two fields. By combining these counts with similar observations from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gillian Wilson , Ian Smail , Richard S. Ellis , Warrick J. Couch

We present a study of the fundamental plane, FP, for a sample of 71 dwarf galaxies in the core of Coma cluster in magnitude range $-21 < M_I <-15$. Taking advantage of high resolution DEIMOS spectrograph on Keck II for measuring the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-15 E. Kourkchi , H. G. Khosroshahi , D. Carter , B. Mobasher

The results of a photometric survey of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy are presented herein. Accurate photometry in two colours (V and I) was collected over a 10 square degree area centred on the Fornax system with the aim of searching…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. G. Coleman , G. S. Da Costa , J. Bland-Hawthorn , K. C. Freeman

We present initial results from a wide field photometric survey of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy. The focus here is on a small overdensity of stars located approximately 17 arcmin (670 pc in projection) from the centre of…

We have used deep GALEX observations at the infall region of the Coma cluster to measure the faintest UV luminosity functions (LFs) presented for a rich galaxy cluster thus far. The Coma UV LFs are measured to M_UV = -10.5 in the GALEX FUV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. M. Hammer , A. E. Hornschemeier , S. Salim , R. Smith , L. Jenkins , B. Mobasher , N. Miller , H. Ferguson

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of 10 nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxies (dE's) in the Fornax cluster. The blue spectra of Fornax dE galaxies indicate a wide range of metallicities at a given luminosity, similar to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Enrico V. Held , Jeremy R. Mould

We use a complete, unbiased sample of 257 dwarf (10^8 MSun < Mstar < 10^9.5 MSun) galaxies at z < 0.08, in the COSMOS field, to study the morphological mix of the dwarf population in low-density environments. Visual inspection of extremely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-04 Ilin Lazar , Sugata Kaviraj , Aaron E. Watkins , Garreth Martin , Brian Bichang'a , Ryan A. Jackson

We have measured central line strengths for a complete sample of early type galaxies in the Fornax cluster, comprising 11 elliptical and 11 lenticular galaxies, more luminous than M_B=-17. In contrast to the elliptical galaxies in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Harald Kuntschner , Roger L. Davies

(Abridged) We present a detailed analysis of the morphology, isophotal parameters and surface brightness profiles for 100 early-type members of the Virgo Cluster, from dwarfs (M_B = -15.1 mag) to giants (M_B = -21.8 mag). Each galaxy has…

We present the reconstructed evolution of rest-frame ultra-violet (UV) luminosities of the most massive Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxy, Fornax, and its five globular clusters (GCs) across redshift, based on analysis of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Tom O. Zick , Daniel R. Weisz , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We conducted an extensive CCD search for faint, unresolved dwarf galaxies of very low surface brightness in the whole Centaurus group region encompassing the Cen A and M 83 subgroups lying at a distance of roughly 4 and 5 Mpc, respectively.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Oliver Müller , Helmut Jerjen , Bruno Binggeli

The Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy is well known for its very high globular cluster specific frequency, SN=26. Furthermore, while the field star metallicity distribution peaks at [Fe/H]=-1, four of the five GCs have [Fe/H]<-2. Only about 5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-18 S. S. Larsen , J. Strader , J. P. Brodie

We investigate the nature of Ultra Faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies (UF dSphs) in a general cosmological context, simultaneously accounting for various "classical" dSphs and Milky Way (MW) properties, including their Metallicity Distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefania Salvadori , Andrea Ferrara

We derive deep $I$ band luminosity functions and colour-magnitude diagrams from HST imaging for eleven $0.2<z<0.6$ clusters observed at various stages of merging, and a comparison sample of five more relaxed clusters at similar redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. De Propris , S. Phillipps , M. Bremer

We present new radial velocity results for 176 stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, of which at least 156 are probable Fornax members. We combine with previously published data to obtain a radial velocity sample with 206 stars, of…

We present newly discovered dwarf galaxy candidates in deep and wide-field images of NGC 1291 obtained with the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network. We identify 15 dwarf galaxy candidates by visual inspection. Using imaging simulations, we…