Sombrero galaxy globular clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Alves-Brito A.
  2. Hau G.K.T.
  3. Forbes D.A.
  4. Spitler L.R.
  5. Strader J.,Brodie J.P.
  6. Rhode K.L.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a large sample of over 200 integrated-light spectra of confirmed globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Sombrero (M104) galaxy taken with the Deep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) instrument on the Keck telescope. A significant fraction of the spectra have signal-to-noise ratio levels high enough to allow measurements of GC metallicities using the method of Brodie & Huchra. We find a distribution of spectroscopic metallicities in the range -2.2<[Fe/H]<+0.1 that is bimodal, with peaks at [Fe/H]~-1.4 and -0.6. Thus, the GC system of the Sombrero galaxy, like a few other galaxies now studied in detail, reveals a bimodal spectroscopic metallicity distribution supporting the long-held belief that colour bimodality reflects two metallicity subpopulations. This further suggests that the transformation from optical colour to metallicity for old stellar populations, such as GCs, is not strongly non-linear. We also explore the radial and magnitude distribution with metallicity for GC subpopulations but small number statistics prevent any clear trends in these distributions.

Keywords
  1. globular-star-clusters
  2. radial-velocity
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. broad-band-photometry
  6. metallicity
  7. galaxy-classification-systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2011MNRAS.417.1823A
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/417/1823
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/417/1823
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74171823

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2018-03-22T16:11:53Z
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2018-03-22T16:11:53Z
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