J/ApJS/276/34ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/276/34doi:10.26093/cds/vizier/bb-8m-12CDSLim S.Peng E.W.Cote P.Ferrarese L.Roediger J.C.Liu C.,Spengler C.Sola E.Duc P.-A.Sales L.V.Blakeslee J.P.,Cuillandre J.-C.Durrell P.R.Emsellem E.Gwyn S.D.J.Lancon A.,Marleau F.R.Mihos J.C.Muller O.Puzia T.H.Sanchez-Janssen R.2026-08-03T07:26:02Z2026-02-16T09:40:41ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frglobular-star-clustersgalaxiesabsolute-magnitudetwo-color-diagramsvisible-astronomysurveysWe present an analysis of the spatial distribution of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 nearby early-type galaxies in the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey and Mass Assembly of early-Type GaLAxies with their fine Structures survey programs, which both used MegaCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. We describe the procedure used to select GC candidates and fit the spatial distributions of GCs to a two-dimensional Sersic function, which provides effective radii (half number radii) and Sersic indices, and estimate background contamination by adding a constant term to the Sersic function. In cases where a neighboring galaxy affects the estimation of the GC spatial distribution in the target galaxy, we fit two two-dimensional Sersic functions, simultaneously. We also investigate the color distributions of GCs in our sample by using Gaussian mixture modeling. For GC systems with bimodal color distributions, we divide the GCs into blue and red subgroups and fit their respective spatial distributions with Sersic functions. Finally, we measure the total number of GCs based on our fitted Sersic function, and calculate the GC specific frequency.2025ApJS..276...34Lhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/276/34CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toJ/ApJ/591/850 : Radial velocities of M49 globular clusters (Cote+, 2003)J/ApJS/153/223 : ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. I. (Cote+, 2004)J/MNRAS/355/608 : NGC 4649 (M60) globular clusters (Forbes+, 2004)J/ApJ/668/209 : HST photometry of NGC 5866 globulars (Cantiello+, 2007)J/ApJS/169/213 : ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. I. (Jordan+, 2007)J/ApJS/171/101 : GCs in the ACS Virgo cluster survey (Jordan+, 2007)J/ApJ/655/144 : ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. (Mei+, 2007)J/ApJ/682/135 : CCD photometry of M60 (Lee+, 2008)J/ApJ/681/197 : ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. 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Globular clusters candidates (de Brito Silva+, 2022)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/276/34https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/276/34http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/276/34https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/276/34https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/276/34http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/276/34GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJS/276/34/GCsyst (Galaxy parameters (Table 1) and globular cluster (GC) properties from this study (Table 2))https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/276/34/GCsyst?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/276/34/GCsyst?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/276/34/GCsyst?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true21.198778069.538793060.0055555555555555565/6935 6941 6/2374 4565 4829 5075 5182 6103 7287 7374 7385 8196 11457 13336 13401 17761 18269 18325 19442 20101 26361-26362 26542 27079 27515 27713 27718-27719 27724 27733-27736 27738-27739 27763 27769 27771 27773-27774 27859 27861-27862 27904-27905 27907-27908 27910 27912-27914 27916 27919 27931 27936 27938-27939 27944 27946 27948 27951 27960 28032-28033 28037-28038 28200 28221 28300 28495 31499 32168https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJS/276/34?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/ApJS/276/34/GCsystGalaxy parameters (Table 1) and globular cluster (GC) properties from this study (Table 2)recnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintNameGalaxy namemeta.id;meta.maincharRAJ2000[21.19/345.3] Right ascension (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000[-1.16/60.7] Declination (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.maingMag[-22.65/-15.4] Absolute g-band magnitude (1)(3)magphys.magAbs;em.opt.Bfloatg-i0[0.6/1.15] (g'-i')0 color index (1)magem.opt.B;em.opt.IfloatMs[2e+08/3.7e+11] Galaxy stellar mass (1)solMassphys.massdoubleRe[4.5/225.6] Galaxy effective radius (1)arcsecphys.angSizefloatDist[10.3/25] Distance (2)Mpcpos.distancefloatSurveySurvey identifier ("MATLAS", "NGVS" or "NGVS,ACSVCS")meta.id;obs.imagecharONameOther galaxy name(s)meta.idcharSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlcharNEDNED column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlcharLEDAmeta.ref.urlcharReGC[0.1/15.8] Effective radius of the GC system, R_e,gc_arcminphys.size.radiusfloate_ReGC[0.02/1.8] Lower uncertainty on ReGCarcminstat.error;stat.min;phys.size.radiusfloatE_ReGC[0.02/2.9] Upper uncertainty on ReGCarcminstat.error;stat.max;phys.size.radiusfloatn[0.46/8] Sersic index of the GC systemsrc.morph.paramfloate_n[0.02/2.8] Lower uncertainty on nstat.error;stat.min;src.morph.paramfloatE_n[0.01/4.8] Upper uncertainty on nstat.error;stat.max;src.morph.paramfloatNgc[6/17730] Total number of GCsmeta.numberinte_Ngc[3/942] Lower uncertainty on Ngcstat.error;stat.min;meta.numberintE_Ngc[6/1030] Upper uncertainty on Ngcstat.error;stat.max;meta.numberintModBimodality of GC color distributionsmeta.codecharReBGC[0.2/15.3]? Effective radius of blue GC system, R_e,bgc_arcminphys.size.radiusfloatnullablee_ReBGC[0.02/2]? Lower uncertainty on ReBGCarcminstat.error;stat.min;phys.size.radiusfloatnullableE_ReBGC[0.03/2.8]? Upper uncertainty on ReBGCarcminstat.error;stat.max;phys.size.radiusfloatnullableReRGC[0.08/5.7]? Effective radius of red GC system, R_e,rgc_arcminphys.size.radiusfloatnullablee_ReRGC[0.01/1.6]? Lower uncertainty on ReRGCarcminstat.error;stat.min;phys.size.radiusfloatnullableE_ReRGC[0.03/3.4]? Upper uncertainty on ReRGCarcminstat.error;stat.max;phys.size.radiusfloatnullableg-i0B[0.6/0.81]? (g-i)_0,b_ peak color of blue GC systemmagem.opt.B;em.opt.Ifloatnullableg-i0R[0.8/1.2]? (g-i)_0,r_ peak color of red GC systemmagem.opt.B;em.opt.Ifloatnullableg-i0m[0.6/2.2]? (g-i)_0,m_ median GC color; for unimodal GC color distributionsmagem.opt.B;em.opt.IfloatnullableSNg[0.1/29.2] GC specific frequency, S_N,g'_ (4)phys.magAbs;arith.ratio;em.opt.Bfloate_SNg[0.1/6.9] Lower uncertainty on SNgstat.error;stat.min;arith.ratiofloatE_SNg[0.1/8.4] Upper uncertainty on SNgstat.error;stat.max;arith.ratiofloat