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Perhaps They are not Globular Clusters After All

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

A. M. Karick
A. M. Karick*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

Abstract

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Our 2dF Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey (FCSS) and follow-up work in the Virgo Cluster have shown that the cores of both galaxy clusters contain a previously-unknown class of object, ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies. We present high resolution spectroscopy and deep multicolor imaging to show that these enigmatic objects are dynamically distinct from both globular clusters (GCs) and nucleated dwarf galaxies (dE,Ns). Our hypothesis for their origin may explain the observed high “specific frequency” of GCs in central cluster galaxies.

Type
JD6: Extragalactic Globular Clusters & Their Host Galaxies
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 201
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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