[PDF] Top 20 The next generation Virgo cluster survey (NGVS) I Introduction to the survey

... one the most fun- damental observational constraints on cosmological models of galaxy ...of the luminosity function date back many decades, with early “bell-shaped” distributions (Hubble & Humason 1931) ... See full document

... The NGVS-IR observations for the pilot field were car- ried out at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), us- ing the Wide-field InfraRed Camera (WIRCam; Puget et ...at the ... See full document

... of the spectroscopic surveys will be presented in future papers in a ...of the UCDs associated with the central cD galaxy M87 (D = ...hosts the majority of confirmed UCDs from our ... See full document

... designed to complete the UV GALEX cover- age of the Virgo cluster at a depth similar to the GALEX ...by the presence of bright stars saturating the detector, ... See full document

... of the entire GC system included in the ACS/WFC field of ...fit to the spatial density profile (Peng et al. 2008). Where the ratio is exactly unity (for most dwarfs), the total ... See full document

... on the procedure outlined above, a total of 91 new TNOs and Centaurs have been discovered (see Figure ...Once the recovery observations are used, 68 of these 91 objects have a semi-major axis uncertainty of ... See full document

... from the observed u ′ g ′ i ′ frames to take advantage of the total fl ux captured in each passband while preserving color ... The RGB images allow us to easily identify dwarf ... See full document

...  The spectral energy distributions of the GCs are associated with formal estimates of age and metallicity, which are representative of its position in a 4D color space relative to standard single ... See full document

... In the last 20 years, evidence has emerged for the existence of a family of compact stellar systems, called “ ultracompact dwarfs ” ( UCDs ) ...and the most massive GCs ( Hilker et ...similar ... See full document

... addition to measuring total magnitudes based on the best- fit PSF convolved King models, we also measured the best- fit amount of light in a 4 pixel ( = ...that the light measured within ... See full document

... using the surrounding DECam pointings ( NGFS tiles 2 – 7; see Figure 1 ) to identify 271 new dwarf galaxy candidates, of which 39 are ...In the following, we refer to the surrounding ... See full document

... 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The Coma Cluster of galaxies, Abell 1656, is along with the Perseus Cluster the nearest rich and dense cluster environ- ...Unlike the ... See full document

... between the nucleus and the formation of its parent ...Furthermore, the stellar population properties of nuclei seem to be more complex than fi rst thought, revealing multiple stellar ... See full document

... in the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey (ACSVCS; Cote´ et ...Paper I ). This large HST program was designed, in part, to yield homogeneous SBF distances of the highest pos- sible ... See full document

... addition to ACS WFC imaging of our target galaxies, we have also acquired parallel imaging of 100 ‘‘blank’’ fields us- ing the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 ( WFPC2) in the F606W (wide V ) and F814W ... See full document

... attempting to recover luminosity- weighted age and metallicity for unresolved stellar populations is that of line index ...Following the introduction of Lick indices in particular (Faber et ...able ... See full document

... ilar to those that fit the mass functions of young cluster ...study the GCLFs of 89 early-type galaxies ob- served by HST as part of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey ... See full document

... describe the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), which is a ground-based project searching for transiting exoplanets orbiting bright ...on the legacy of previous surveys, most ... See full document

... attempt to solve the problem, a new set of PSFs was constructed using k 1000 stars in fields located in the out- skirts of the Galactic GC 47 Tucanae ( programs GO-10048 and ...from the ... See full document

... Likewise, the simulations of Bekki et ...on the low-mass galaxies, also appear to be consistent with observations, including those from our HST/ACS imaging and results from ground-based ...First, ... See full document