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We present a far-ultraviolet (FUV) study of the globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099). The images were obtained using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS/SBC, F150LP, FUV) and the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2, F300W, UV) which were both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Santana Mansfield , Andrea Dieball , Pavel Kroupa , Christian Knigge , David R. Zurek , Michael Shara , Knox S. Long

We present a study of the globular cluster systems of four early-type poststarburst galaxies using deep g and I-band images from the ACS camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). All the galaxies feature shells distributed around…

We have performed a wide-field imaging survey of the globular cluster (GC) populations around M87 out to a radius of ~ 0.5 Mpc with Suprime-Cam on the 8.2m Subaru Telescope. By investigating the GC colour distribution as a function of…

This Letter presents the color distributions of the globular cluster (GC) systems of 12 Virgo elliptical galaxies, measured using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Bright galaxies with large numbers of detected GC's show two distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Eric H. Neilsen, , Zlatan I. Tsvetanov

We have applied a new method to analyze the horizontal branch (HB) morphology in relation to the distribution of stars near the red giant branch (RGB) tip for the globular clusters M22, M5, M68, M107, M72, M92, M3 and 47 Tuc. This new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Jimenez , P. Thejll , U. Jorgensen , J. MacDonald , B. Pagel

We present deep (V ~ 28.0) BV photometry obtained with the wide field channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board HST for four M31 globular clusters that were identified as candidate intermediate-age (age ~ 1-9 Gyr) by various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Perina , S. Galleti , F. Fusi Pecci , M. Bellazzini , L. Federici , A. Buzzoni

We investigate the effect of stellar density on the ultraviolet (UV) emission from M31's globular clusters (GCs). Published far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) colours from Galaxy Evolution and Explorer (GALEX) observations are used as a probe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark B. Peacock , Thomas J. Maccarone , Andrea Dieball , Christian Knigge

In order to probe the inside-out formation of the most massive galaxies in the Universe, we have explored the radial (0.1 < R < 8 kpc) variation of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of M87 from UV to IR. For this purpose, we have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 Mireia Montes , Ignacio Trujillo , M. Almudena Prieto , José A. Acosta-Pulido

Ages have been derived for 55 globular clusters (GCs) from overlays of isochrones onto the turnoff photometry, assuming distances based on fits of zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB) models to the lower bound of the observed distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-14 Don A. Vandenberg , Karsten Brogaard , Ryan Leaman , Luca Casagrande

We present the first results of a large spectroscopic survey of candidate globular clusters located in the extreme outskirts of the nearby M31 galaxy. We obtained low resolution spectra of 48 targets selected from the XSC of 2MASS, as in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Galleti , M. Bellazzini , L. Federici , A. Buzzoni , F. Fusi Pecci

We examine the dynamics of the stars and globular clusters in the nearby giant galaxy M87 and constrain the mass distribution, using all the available data over a large range of radii, including higher-order moments of the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aaron J. Romanowsky , Christopher S. Kochanek

We have analyzed the far UV-spectrum of the globular cluster M79. We show that the nearly Gaussian mass distribution of zero-age horizontal-branch stars, as derived by Dixon et al.(1996), is able to reproduce the far-UV Hopkins Utraviolet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorick S. Vink , Sara R. Heap , Allen V. Sweigart , Thierry Lanz , Ivan Hubeny

We present the discovery of four remote star clusters in M33, one of which is of an extended nature. Three of the clusters were discovered using survey data from the Isaac Newton Telescope Wide-Field Camera while one was discovered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Huxor , A. M. N. Ferguson , M. K. Barker , N. R. Tanvir , M. J. Irwin , S. C. Chapman , R. Ibata , G. Lewis

A recent study of hot (20,000 to 30,000 K) extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars in globular clusters (GCs) has led to the discovery of their variability. It is suggested that this variability is driven by the projected rotation of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Deepthi S. Prabhu , Annapurni Subramaniam , Snehalata Sahu

We present results derived from VLT-FORS2 spectra of 17 globular clusters associated with the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC3115. Comparing line-strength indices to new stellar population models by Thomas et al. we determine ages,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harald Kuntschner , Bodo L. Ziegler , R. M. Sharples , Guy Worthey , Klaus J. Fricke

We used the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope during the March 1995 Astro-2 mission to obtain a deep far-UV image of the globular cluster NGC 362, which was formerly thought to have an almost entirely red horizontal branch (HB). 84 hot (T_eff >…

A comparative analysis is performed between high-quality integrated spectra of 30 globular clusters in M31, 20 Milky Way clusters, and a sample of field and cluster elliptical galaxies. We find that the Lick CN indices in the M31 and…

We present new UV (F218W) data for stars in the central region of the Galactic globular cluster NGC2808, collected with the WFPC2 camera on board of the Hubble Space Telescope. These data together with F439W and F555W-band data and previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Castellani , G. Iannicola , G. Bono , M. Zoccali , S. Cassisi , R. Buonanno

We present the first results of eight Globular Clusters (GCs) from the AstroSat/UVIT Legacy Survey program GlobULeS based on the observations carried out in two FUV filters (F148W and F169M). The FUV-optical and FUV-FUV color-magnitude…

We have analyzed archival HST/ACS images in Sloan g and z of the globular cluster (GC) systems of 53 ellipticals in the Virgo Cluster, spanning massive galaxies to dEs. Among the new results are: (1) In the gEs M87 and NGC 4649, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jay Strader , Jean P. Brodie , Lee Spitler , Michael A. Beasley