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We investigate, via numerical simulations, the tidal stripping and accretion of globular clusters (GCs). In particular, we focus on creating models that simulate the situation for the GC systems of NGC 1404 and NGC 1399 in the Fornax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenji Bekki , Duncan A. Forbes , Michael A. Beasley , W. J. Couch

We combine our compilation of photometry of M31 globular cluster and probable cluster candidates with new near-infrared photometry for 30 objects. Using these data we determine the globular cluster luminosity function (GCLF) in multiple…

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

Data are presently available on the luminosities and half-light radii of 101 globular clusters associated with low-luminosity parent galaxies. The luminosity distribution of globulars embedded in dwarf galaxies having $M_{v} > -16$ is found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sidney van den Bergh

We studied the properties of the globular cluster systems of five early--type galaxies in the Fornax galaxy cluster: NGC 1374, NGC 1379, NGC 1387, NGC 1427, and the central giant elliptical NGC 1399. From the investigation of their number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kissler-Patig , S. Kohle , M. Hilker , T. Richtler , L. Infante , H. Quintana

We investigate whether the globular clusters (GCs) in the recently published sample of GCs in the Fornax cluster by Bergond and coworkers are indeed intra-cluster objects. We combine the catalogue of radial velocity measurements by Bergond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Schuberth , T. Richtler , L. Bassino , M. Hilker

We present a comprehensive high spatial-resolution imaging study of globular clusters (GCs) in NGC1399, the central giant elliptical cD galaxy in the Fornax galaxy cluster, conducted with HST/ACS. Using a novel technique to construct…

We study the quiescent ultra-diffuse galaxy FCC 224 in the Fornax cluster using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, motivated by peculiar properties of its globular cluster (GC) system revealed in shallower imaging. The surface brightness…

We investigate the spatial distribution of the Intra-Cluster Globular Clusters (ICGCs) detected in the core of the Fornax galaxy cluster. By separately modeling different components of the observed population of Globular Clusters (GCs), we…

We present g-z color and z-band surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) measurements for 43 early-type galaxies in the Fornax cluster imaged with HST/ACS. These are combined with measurements for Virgo cluster galaxies to derive a revised,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John P. Blakeslee , Andres Jordan , Simona Mei , Patrick Cote , Laura Ferrarese , Leopoldo Infante , Eric W. Peng , John L. Tonry , Michael J. West

We review selected measurements of the galaxy luminosity function including the global field, the local group, the local sphere, nearby clusters (Virgo, Coma and Fornax) and clusters in general. We conclude that the overall cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon P. Driver , Roberto De Propris

We measure the galaxy luminosity function (LF) for the Virgo Cluster between blue magnitudes M_B = -22 and M_B = -11 from wide-field CCD imaging data. The LF is only gradually rising for -22 < M_B < -16. Between M_B = -16 and M_B = -14 it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil Trentham , Simon Hodgkin

We present a photometric investigation of the globular cluster population of NGC 1399, the central galaxy in the Fornax cluster, in Washington C and Kron R filters within a field of 36'x36'. This is the largest area around this galaxy ever…

The turnover, or peak, magnitude in a galaxy's globular cluster luminosity function (GCLF) may provide a standard candle for an independent distance estimator. Here we examine the GCLF of the giant elliptical NGC 4365 using photometry of ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Duncan A. Forbes

It is well known that Globular cluster systems are different among galaxies. Here we test to which degree these differences remain on the scale of galaxy clusters by comparing the globular clusters (GCs) in optical surveys of the Virgo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-08 J. Dabringhausen , M. Fellhauer , S. Mieske

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

Using a new spectroscopic sample and methods accounting for spectroscopic sampling fractions that vary in magnitude and surface brightness, we present R-band galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) for six nearby galaxy clusters with redshifts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Christlein , Ann Zabludoff

Our VLT (FLAMES) observations near NGC1399 investigate the connection between ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), NGC1399 globular clusters and intra-cluster globulars. We have uncovered 30 faint compact stellar systems in the Fornax…

We describe a population of compact objects in the centre of the Fornax Cluster which were discovered as part of our 2dF Fornax Spectroscopic Survey. These objects have spectra typical of old stellar systems, but are unresolved on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. J. Drinkwater , J. B. Jones , M. D. Gregg , S. Phillipps

We measure the half-light radii of globular clusters (GCs) in 43 galaxies from the ACS Fornax Cluster Survey (ACSFCS). We use these data to extend previous work in which the environmental dependencies of the half-light radii of GCs in early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Karen L. Masters , Andres Jordan , Patrick Cote , Laura Ferrarese , John P. Blakeslee , Leopolde Infante , Eric Peng , Simona Mei , Michael J. West

We present preliminary results of our dynamical study of the outer globular cluster system of NGC 1399, the central galaxy in the Fornax Cluster. About 160 new radial velocities for globular clusters at projected galactocentric distances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Schuberth , T. Richtler , B. Dirsch , M. Hilker , S. Larsen