[PDF] Top 20 The Formation of Globular Cluster Systems in Massive Elliptical Galaxies: Globular Cluster Multimodality from Radial Variation of Stellar Populations

... most massive elliptical galaxies show a prominent multimodality in their globular cluster system color distri- ...Understanding the mechanisms that lead to multiple ... See full document

... on formation mechanisms to explain the complex stellar popula- tions in GCs, such as capturing of field stars (Fellhauer, Kroupa & Evans 2006; Mieske & Baumgardt 2007; ... See full document

... role in determining the shapes and dynamics of elliptical ...Young globular clusters (GCs) formed during mergers hold strong promise for age-dating such events, be- sides helping shed ... See full document

... single stellar populations, trends in their integrated color are generally equated with trends in ...color of GCs ...fit the color–metallicity relation from the ... See full document

... The formation and evolution of globular clusters is still lively discussed in the literature ...to the exciting information about them that has appeared in ... See full document

... feature of galaxy clusters: a significant population likely resides in A1185 (Jord´an et ...a cluster in which the cD galaxy is offset from the centroid of X-ray ... See full document

... Coma cluster of galaxies (Abell 1656) is one of the nearest rich, dense clusters, and is a fundamental target for extragalactic ...Studies of GC systems in Coma ... See full document

... show the mass-weighted age of the stellar populations in the selected early-type dwarfs as a function of distance from the center of the ... See full document

... bag of objects,” but in light of this study the expression may be even better suited to our sample of ...objects. The lowest mass clusters in our sample represent ... See full document

... compare the metallicities of different stellar populations in Sextans ...B. The metal- licity of old stars, [F e/H] = ...comparison of the red giant branch ... See full document

... description of the observations by the an- alytical model advocates that at low galaxy masses, where galaxies have shallower potential wells ...by the ionizing radiation of SNe ... See full document

... consisting of an old stellar population and being sim- ilar in their basic features ...gations of the integrated light of nearby galaxies revealed a va- riety of ... See full document

... stars in NGC 2808. The first finding chart of seven variables was published by Fourcade & Laborde (1966), although five of these are now thought to be actually non-varying (Clement & ... See full document

... a stellar distribution resembling that of a globular cluster ...whether the dust window scenario applies to Kronberger 49, we build a color map for the stars observed with ... See full document

... fit the mass functions of young cluster systems. In this paper we study the GCLFs of 89 early-type galaxies ob- served by HST as part of the ACS Virgo ... See full document

... tracers of old ( t > 10 Gyr ) stellar ...both in gas-poor and in gas-rich stellar ...amplitude of their optical light ...investigate the early formation and ... See full document

... Presentamos la fotometría multicolor para el CG, recientemente encontrado por el VVV, describiendo la observación, la obtención de los datos, la complementación de los datos y las limitaciones e incertidumbres de los ... See full document

... make the first tentative detection of RR Lyrae stars in four clusters, namely, G11, G33, G64, and ...number of RR Lyrae candidates were identified in each cluster (two, four, ... See full document

... on the faint end of the luminosity function at an age of 14 ...analyses of GCs in other dwarf galaxies show that their blue colours are, in general, consistent with ... See full document

... detected in our survey appears to have a super-solar [α/Fe] abundance, different to typical values found for the current population of ...including the abundance analyses done for UCD ... See full document