A GEMINI/GMOS study of intermediate luminosity early-type Virgo cluster galaxies. I. Globular cluster and stellar kinematics

Journal Article · Wed Jun 10 04:00:00 EDT 2015 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/133· OSTI ID:22883061

Li, Biao; Peng, Eric W.; Zhang, Hong-xin ^[1]; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura ^[2]; Jordán, Andrés; Puzia, Thomas H. ^[3]; Liu, Chengze ^[4]; Mei, Simona ^[5]; Takamiya, Marianne ^[6]; Trancho, Gelys ^[7]

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1. Department of Astronomy, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
2. National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Program, 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7 (Canada)
3. Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av.Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 7820436 Macul, Santiago (Chile)
4. Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shangai 200240 (China)
5. GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research Institute CNRS, University of Paris Diderot, 61, Avenue de l’Observatoire 75014, Paris (France)
6. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822 (United States)
7. Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, 251 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101 (United States)

We present a kinematic analysis of the globular cluster (GC) systems and diffuse stellar light of four intermediate luminosity (sub-L*) early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster based on Gemini Multi-Object Spectrographs (GMOS) data. Our galaxy sample is fainter (−23.8

• OSTI ID: 22883061
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 806; ISSN ASJOAB; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• Language: English

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