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We present K-band observations of the low-luminosity galaxies in the Coma cluster, which are responsible for the steep upturn in the optical luminosity function at M_R ~ -16, discovered recently. The main results of this study are (i) The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bahram Mobasher , Neil Trentham

We examine the luminosity and B-I color distribution of globular clusters for three early-type galaxies in the Fornax cluster using imaging data from the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The luminosity functions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Carl J. Grillmair , Duncan A. Forbes , Jean P. Brodie , Rebecca Elson

Both theoretical and observational lines of reasoning suggest that the very faint (B > 24) galaxies seen in deep images of the sky are small low-mass galaxies that experienced starburst at 0.5<z<1 and have since faded into low luminosity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 Arif Babul , Henry C. Ferguson

We present the results of a search for low surface brightness galaxies (hereafter LSBs) in the Coma cluster. Bernstein et al. report on deep CCD observations in R of a 7.5 by 7.5 arcminute region in the core of the Coma cluster, and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. P. Ulmer , G. M. Bernstein , D. R. Martin , R. C. Nichol , J. L. Pendleton , J. A. Tyson

We present the results of a search for clusters in dwarf irregular galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Cluster using HST WFPC2 snapshot data. The galaxy sample includes 28 galaxies, 11 of which are confirmed members of the Virgo and Fornax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anil Seth , Knut Olsen , Bryan Miller , Jennifer Lotz , Rosie Telford

The transformation of late-type galaxies has been suggested as the origin of early-type dwarf galaxies in galaxy clusters. Venhola et al. analysed correlations between colour and surface brightness for galaxies in the Fornax cluster binned…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Joachim Janz , Heikki Salo , Alan H. Su , Aku Venhola

We report the discovery of 271 previously undetected dwarf galaxies in the outer Fornax cluster regions at radii $r_{\rm vir}/4<\!r\!<r_{\rm vir}/2$ using data from the Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS) with deep coadded $u'$, $g'$ and…

The results of the Fornax Compact Object Survey (FCOS) are presented. The FCOS aims at investigating the nature of the Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs) recently discovered in the center of the Fornax cluster (Drinkwater et al. 2000). 280…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mieske , M. Hilker , L. Infante

The $Herschel$ Fornax Cluster Survey (HeFoCS) is a deep, far-infrared (FIR) survey of the Fornax cluster. The survey is in 5 $Herschel$ bands (100 - 500 $\mu$m) and covers an area of 16 deg$^2$ centred on NGC1399. This paper presents…

The lowest luminosity (L < 10^5 L_sun) Milky Way satellite galaxies represent the extreme lower limit of the galaxy luminosity function. These ultra-faint dwarfs are the oldest, most dark matter-dominated, most metal-poor, and least…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 Joshua D. Simon

Exploiting the power of gravitational lensing, the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program aims at observing six massive galaxy clusters to explore the distant Universe far beyond the depth limits of blank field surveys. Using the complete…

We search for hints to the origin and nature of compact stellar systems in the magnitude range of ultracompact dwarf galaxies in deep wide-field imaging data of the Fornax cluster core. We visually investigate a large sample of 355…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-11 Carolin Wittmann , Thorsten Lisker , Anna Pasquali , Michael Hilker , Eva K. Grebel

The galaxy Luminosity Function (LF) has been estimated in the rest frame B luminosity at 0<z<1.25 and at 1700 {\AA} for 2.5<z<4.5 from deep multicolor surveys in the HDF-N, HDF-S, NTT-DF. The results have been compared with a recent version…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Poli , N. Menci , E. Giallongo , A. Fontana , S. Cristiani , S. D' Odorico

We study the galaxy population in the central region and a region about 0.6 Mpc away from the center of the Hydra I cluster in B- and Rc-bands down to M~-10 using the Subaru Suprime-Cam photometry. We find that the luminosity function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Yamanoi , M. Tanaka , M. Hamabe , M. Yagi , S. Okamura , M. Iye , K. Shimasaku , M. Doi , Y. Komiyama , H. Furusawa

We present the results of deep, high velocity resolution (~1.6 km/s) Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) HI 21cm observations of extremely faint (M_B > -12.5) dwarf irregular galaxies. We find that all of our sample galaxies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ayesha Begum , Jayaram N. Chengalur

We present the $V$-band globular cluster luminosity functions (GCLFs) of the Fornax Cluster galaxies NGC 1344, NGC 1380, NGC 1399, and NGC 1404. Our observations reach to $V = 24.8$, roughly one magnitude beyond the GCLF turnover $m^0_V$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 John P. Blakeslee , John L. Tonry

Studies measuring the star formation rate density, luminosity function, and properties of star-forming galaxies are numerous. However, it exists a gap at $0.5<z<0.8$ in H$\alpha$-based studies. Our main goal is to study the properties of a…

This work is based on high quality integral-field spectroscopic data obtained with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The 21 brightest ($m_B\leq 15$ mag) early-type galaxies (ETGs) inside the…

We present the study of a magnitude limited sample (mB < 16.6 mag) of 13 late type galaxies (LTGs), observed inside the virial radius, Rvir 0.7 Mpc, of the Fornax cluster within the Fornax Deep Survey (FDS). The main objective is to use…

We present results from a deep photometric study of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 2218 (z=0.18) based on archival HST WFPC2 F606W images. These have been used to derive the luminosity function to extremely faint limits (M_{F606W}=-13.2 mag,…