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Title

GMOS photometry of five globular cluster systems: NGC 4649, NGC 3923, NGC 524, NGC 3115 and NGC 3379

Author(s)

Faifer, Favio Raul;  Forte, Juan Carlos;  Beasley, Michael A.;  Bridges, Terry J.;  Forbes, Duncan A.;  Gebhardt, Karl;  Hanes, David A.;  Norris, Mark A.;  Pierce, Michael J.;  Proctor, Robert N.;  Sharples, Ray M.;  Zepf, Stephen E.

Abstract

Globular clusters (GCs) are useful tools to study the star formation and chemical evolution history as well as the dynamics and dark matter content of early-type galaxies. In this context, our group is involved in a major programme using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the 8m Gemini telescopes to obtain photometry and spectroscopy of GCs in a sample of early-type galaxies, covering a range of galaxy type, luminosity, and environment [3, 5, 6, 2]. Here we briefly describe the first photometric results of five galaxies: NGC 4649, NGC 3923, NGC 524, NGC 3115 and NGC 3379.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Source

ESO astrophysics symposia: Globular clusters: guides to galaxies: Proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters, Concepcion, Chile, 06-10 March 2006 / Markus Kissler-Patig (ed.), pp. 299-300

Publication year

2009

Keyword(s)

GCs;  Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph;  Globular clusters;  GMOS;  Luminosity;  NGC 524;  NGC 3115;  NGC 3379.;  NGC 3923;  NGC 4649

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

1431-2433 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9783540769606, 3540769609

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76961-3_69

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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