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Globular Cluster (GC) systems of most early-type galaxies show bimodal optical color distributions, yet their Luminosity Functions (LFs) look like simple Gaussians with turn-over magnitudes used for determination of distances and the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben

Globular cluster systems exhibit a bewildering variety of characteristics. No single scenario appears to be able to account for the wide range of specific globular cluster frequencies that are observed in galaxies of various types. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sidney van den Bergh

We investigate the old globular cluster (GC) population of 68 faint (Mv>-16 mag) dwarf galaxies located in the halo regions of nearby (<12 Mpc) loose galaxy groups and in the field environment based on archival HST/ACS images in F606W and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iskren Y. Georgiev , Thomas H. Puzia , Michael Hilker , Paul Goudfrooij

Globular cluster systems in most large galaxies display bimodal color and metallicity distributions, which are frequently interpreted as indicating two distinct modes of cluster formation. The metal-rich (red) and metal-poor (blue) clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Oleg Y. Gnedin

We present the color distributions of globular cluster (GC) systems for 100 Virgo cluster early-type galaxies observed in the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. The color distributions of individual GC systems are consistent with continuous trends…

Deep images of 10 early-type galaxies in low-density environments have been obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The global properties of the globular cluster (GC) systems of the galaxies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Cho , R. M. Sharples , J. P. Blakeslee , S. E. Zepf , A. Kundu , H. -S. Kim , S. -J. Yoon

Deep imaging data from the Keck II telescope are employed to study the globular cluster (GC) populations in the cores of six rich Abell clusters. The sample includes A754, A1644, A2124, A2147, A2151, and A2152, and spans the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John P. Blakeslee

The interpretation that bimodal colour distributions of globular clusters (GCs) reflect bimodal metallicity distributions has been challenged. Non-linearities in the colour to metallicity conversions caused by the horizontal branch (HB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. L. Chies-Santos , S. S. Larsen , M. Cantiello , J. Strader , H. Kuntschner , E. M. Wehner , J. P. Brodie

The colors of globular clusters in most of large elliptical galaxies are bimodal. This is generally taken as evidence for the presence of two cluster subpopulations that have different geneses. However, here we find that, because of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Suk-Jin Yoon , Sukyoung Ken Yi , Young-Wook Lee

We investigate the globular cluster system around the low-luminosity S0 galaxy NGC 7457 with deep B, V, I photometry. From the V photometry the total number of globular clusters around the galaxy is estimated to be 178 +- 75. The specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chapelon , V. Buat , D. Burgarella , M. Kissler-Patig

We present a study of the spatial and color distributions of four early-type galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems observed as part of our ongoing wide-field imaging survey. We use $BVR$ KPNO-4m+MOSAIC imaging data to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jonathan R. Hargis , Katherine L. Rhode

Shells in Elliptical Galaxies are faint, sharp-edged features, believed to provide evidence of a recent ($\sim 0.5 - 2 \times 10^9$ years ago) merger event. We analyse the Globular Cluster (GC) systems of six shell elliptical galaxies, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sikkema , R. F. Peletier , D. Carter , E. A. Valentijn , M. Balcells

We collected a sample of 100 galaxies for which different observers have determined colour indices of globular cluster candidates. The sample includes representatives of galaxies of various morphological types and different luminosities.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Helina Eerik , Peeter Tenjes

We present a new catalog of 81 ancient globular clusters (GCs) in the early-type spiral (SB0/a) galaxy NGC 1291. Candidates have been selected from B,V, and I band images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, which also reveal 17 younger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Kyle Hixenbaugh , Rupali Chandar , Angus Mok

We present the first results from our HST Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) survey of seven central supergiant cluster galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems. We measure a total of 48000 GCs in all seven galaxies, representing the…

In this contribution, first results of deep VLT photometry (V,I) in the central region of the Hydra I and Centaurus galaxy clusters are presented. In both galaxy clusters, many star clusters have been identified down to the turnover…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Hilker

The mass distribution and chemical composition of globular cluster (GC) systems preserve fossil record of the early stages of galaxy formation. The observed distribution of GC colors within massive early-type galaxies in the ACS Virgo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We obtained spectra of some 140 globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Virgo central cD galaxy M87 with the Subaru/FOCAS MOS mode. The fundamental properties of GCs such as age, metallicity and $\alpha$-element abundance are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Sooyoung Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon , Sang-Yoon Lee , Chul Chung , Sangmo Tony Sohn

We combined new near-infrared VLT/HAWK-I data of the globular clusters (GCs) in the isolated edge-on S0 galaxy NGC 3115 with optical and spectroscopic ones taken from the literature, with the aim of analyzing the multiband GC color…

We present new catalogs of likely globular clusters (GCs) in 17 nearby spiral galaxies studied as part of the PHANGS-HST Treasury Survey. The galaxies were imaged in five broad-band filters from the near-ultraviolet through the $I$ band.…