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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

This paper is the third in the series of papers on M81 globular clusters. In this paper, we present spatial and metal abundance properties of 95 M81 globular clusters, which comprise nearly half of all the M81 globular cluster system. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Ma , David Burstein , Zhou Fan , Xu Zhou , Jiansheng Chen , Zhaoji Jiang , Zhenyu Wu , Jianghua Wu

The structure of a very bright (MV = -10.9) globular cluster in NGC 1023 is analyzed on two sets of images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. From careful modeling of King profile fits to the cluster image, a core radius of 0.55+/-0.1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Soeren S. Larsen

We used a combination of optical and near-UV Hubble Space Telescope photometry and FLAMES/ESO-VLT high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize the stellar content of the old and massive globular cluster (GC) NGC121 in the Small Magellanic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 E. Dalessandro , E. Lapenna , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni

We started a photometric survey using the WFC3/UVIS instrument onboard the Hubble Space Telescope to search for multiple populations within Magellanic Cloud star clusters at various ages. In this paper, we introduce this survey. As first…

The northwest side of the disk of M31 is known to be the near side because of the differential reddening of globular clusters found from their photographic photometry. This paper reports a simple geometric model to evaluate the visibility…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-09 Masanori Iye , Masafumi Yagi

We present the result of a wide-field survey of globular clusters (GCs) in M31 covering a 3deg x 3deg field c. We have searched for GCs on CCD images taken with Washington CMT1 filters at the KPNO 0.9 m telescope using steps: (1) inspection…

We report on deep imaging of a remote M31 globular cluster, MGC1, obtained with Gemini/GMOS. Our colour-magnitude diagram for this object extends ~5 magnitudes below the tip of the red giant branch and exhibits features consistent with an…

We analyze the structural parameters of the largest-available sample of spatially resolved extragalactic globular clusters. The images of M31 GCs were found in a search of HST archival data, described in a companion paper. We measure the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Barmby , S. Holland , J. P. Huchra

In this paper, we present photometry of 53 globular clusters (GCs) in the M31 outer halo, including the {\sl GALEX} FUV and NUV, SDSS $ugriz$, 15 intermediate-band filters of BATC, and 2MASS $JHK_{\rm s}$ bands. By comparing the multicolour…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Song Wang , Jun Ma , Jifeng Liu

[Abridged] M31 has several times more globular clusters (GCs) than the Milky Way. It contains a correspondingly larger number of low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) associated with GCs, and can be used to investigate the GC properties which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. R. R. Agar , P. Barmby

We present the spectroscopic observations for 11 confirmed globular clusters of M31 with the OMR spectrograph on 2.16m telescope at Xinglong site of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Nine of our sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhou Fan , Ya-Fang Huang , Jin-Zeng Li , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Hong Wu , Tian-Meng Zhang , Yong-Heng Zhao

We searched the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for outer halo globular clusters (GCs) around M31. Our search of non-stellar objects, within the limits 0.3 < (g-i)o < 1.5 and 14.0 < ro < 19.0 concentrated in some remote areas of the extended halo,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Graziella di Tullio Zinn , Robert Zinn

The global properties of all known Galactic globular clusters are examined. The relationship between the luminosities and the metallicities of Galactic globular clusters is found to be complex. Among luminous clusters there is a correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Sidney van den Bergh

With the ultimate aim of distinguishing between various models describing the formation of galaxy halos (e.g. radial or multi-phase collapse, random mergers), we have completed a spectroscopic study of the globular cluster system of M31. We…

The globular cluster (GC) systems of the Milky Way and of our neighboring spiral galaxy, M31, comprise 2 distinct entities, differing in 3 respects. 1. M31 has young GCs, ages from ~100 Myr to 5 Gyr old, as well as old globular clusters. No…

Current models of galaxy formation predict that galaxy pairs of comparable magnitudes should become increasingly rare with decreasing luminosity. This seems at odds with the relatively high frequency of pairings among dwarf galaxies in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Azadeh Fattahi , Julio F. Navarro , Else Starkenburg , Christopher R. Barber , Alan W. McConnachie

We present a structural analysis of halo star clusters in M31 based on deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging. The clusters in our sample span a range in galactocentric projected distance from 13 to 100…

We present absorption line indices measured in the integrated spectra of globular clusters both from the Galaxy and from M 31. Our samples include 41 Galactic globular clusters, and more than 300 clusters in M 31. The conversion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ricardo P. Schiavon , Nelson Caldwell , Heather Morrison , Paul Harding , Stephane Courteau , Lauren A. MacArthur , Genevieve J. Graves

We have obtained HST-NICMOS observations of five of M31's most metal rich globular clusters: G1, G170, G174, G177 & G280. For the two clusters farthest from the nucleus we statistically subtract the field population and estimate…