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Globular cluster (GC) systems have now been studied in galaxies ranging from dwarfs to giants and spanning the full Hubble sequence of morphological types. Imaging and spectroscopy with the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jean P. Brodie , Jay Strader

V-band luminosity functions have been obtained for the upper main-sequence, sub-giant branch and red giant branch of 18 galactic globular clusters from HST data. A comparison with four sets of theoretical models has been performed. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Zoccali , G. Piotto

We explore the relation between the total globular cluster population in a galaxy (N_GC) and the the mass of its central black hole (M_BH). Using a sample of 33 galaxies, twice as large as the original sample discussed by Burkert & Tremaine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gretchen L. H. Harris , William E. Harris

We use various samples of compact groups (CGs) to examine the types of association CGs have with rich and poor clusters of galaxies at low (z~0.04) and intermediate (z~0.1) redshifts. We find that ~10-20 % of CGs are associated with rich…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Andernach , R. Coziol

(Abridged): The total populations of globular cluster systems (GCSs) are discussed in terms of their connection to the efficiency of globular cluster formation---the mass fraction of star-forming gas that was able to form bound stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dean E. McLaughlin

We investigate the dependence of several galaxy properties on the environment and cluster identification techniques. We select clusters of galaxies from two catalogues based on the SDSS: the ROSAT-SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey, and the MaxBCG…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Coenda , H. Muriel

Galactic and extragalactic studies have shown that metal-rich globular clusters (GCs) are approximately three times more likely to host bright low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) than metal-poor GCs. There is no satisfactory explanation for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Neven Vulic , Pauline Barmby , Sarah C. Gallagher

The location of Galactic Globular Clusters' (GC) stars on the horizontal branch (HB) should mainly depend on GC metallicity, the "first parameter", but it is actually the result of complex interactions between the red giant branch (RGB)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 M. Tailo , A. P. Milone , E. P. Lagioia , F. D'Antona , A. F. Marino , E. Vesperini , V. Caloi , P. Ventura , E. Dondoglio , G. Cordoni

In order to assess whether the environment has a significant effect on galaxy sizes, we compare the mass--size relations of cluster and field galaxies in the $0.4 < z < 0.8$ redshift range from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) using…

We present a new method for the determination of the two-dimensional (2D) projected spatial distribution of globular clusters (GCs) in external galaxies. This method is based on the K-Nearest Neighbor density estimator of Dressler (1980),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. D'Abrusco , G. Fabbiano , J. Strader , A. Zezas , S. Mineo , T. Fragos , P. Bonfini , B. Luo , D. -W. Kim , A. King

The gravitational redshift effect allows one to directly probe the gravitational potential in clusters of galaxies. Following up on Wojtak et al. [Nature (London) 477, 567 (2011)], we present a new measurement. We take advantage of new data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 Iftach Sadeh , Low Lerh Feng , Ofer Lahav

The radial distribution of globular clusters in galaxies is always less peaked to the centre than the halo stars'. Extending previous work to a sample of HST globular cluster systems in ellipticals, we evaluate the number of clusters lost…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , A. Tesseri

Metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) are our local link to the earliest epochs of star formation and galaxy building. Studies of extragalactic GC systems using deep, high-quality imaging have revealed a small but significant slope to the…

We present a catalog of 422 galaxies with published measurements of their globular cluster (GC) populations. Of these, 248 are E galaxies, 93 are S0 galaxies, and 81 are spirals or irregulars. Among various correlations of the total number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 William E. Harris , Gretchen L. H. Harris , Matthew Alessi

We use our Galactic Globular Cluster Catalog (G2C2) photometry for 111 Galactic globular clusters (GC) in g and z, as well as r and i photometry for a subset of 60 GCs and u photometry for 22 GCs, to determine the structural parameters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Joachim Vanderbeke , Roberto De Propris , Sven De Rijcke , Maarten Baes , Michael J. West , John P. Blakeslee

Using the apparatus of correlation Gamma-function (``conditional density''), we have analyzed spatial clustering of objects from several different samples of galaxies, clusters and superclusters. On small scales the distribution of objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Tikhonov , D. I. Makarov , A. I. Kopylov

1057 globular cluster candidates have been identified in a WFPC2 image of the inner region of M87. The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function (GCLF) can be well fit by a Gaussian profile with a mean value of m_V^0=23.67 +/- 0.07 mag and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 A. Kundu , B. C. Whitmore , W. B. Sparks , F. D. Macchetto , S. E. Zepf , K. M. Ashman

We present measurements of the angular correlation function of galaxies selected from a B_J=23.5 multicolour survey of two 5 degree by 5 degree fields located at high galactic latitudes. The galaxy catalogue of approximately 400,000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. I. Brown , R. L. Webster , B. J. Boyle

One of the external fields that influences the population of globular clusters is that due to galactic bulges. In extreme situations, perigalactic distances $r_p \le 100$ pc, globular clusters could suffer total disruption in a single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Holly K. Nordquist , Robert J. Klinger , Pablo Laguna , Jane C. Charlton

We studied and compared the radial profiles of globular clusters and of the stellar bulge component in three galaxies of the Fornax cluster observed with the WFPC2 of the HST. A careful comparative analysis of these distributions confirms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , I. Donnarumma
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