M87 globular clusters BVI photometry Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. COUTURE J.
  2. HARRIS W.E.
  3. ALLWRIGHT J.W.B.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present CCD photometry in B, V, and I for a sample of globular clusters in the Virgo central giant elliptical galaxy M87. Our measured sample comprises 270 objects brighter than V~23.4mag and with distances r>25" (>2kpc) from the center of the galaxy. In agreement with the recent study of Cohen, we find no detectable gradient of mean cluster color (metallicity) in (B-V) or (V-I) with radial distance. The cluster system does, however, display a large dispersion in color at any radius, corresponding to sigma([Fe/H])~0.6 about a mean metallicity (Fe/H]>~-1.1 according to our color index scale. The difference in mean color between the globular clusters and the underlying halo light of the galaxy itself, found previously by Strom and coworkers and by Cohen, shows up strongly in all of our color indices; we find virtually no clusters as red as mean color of the halo stars at any radius.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. ccd-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1990ApJS...73..671C
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/73/671
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.20730671

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History

1997-12-09T21:09:27Z
Resource record created
1997-12-09T20:09:30Z
Updated
1997-12-09T21:09:27Z
Created

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