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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XI. The Nature of Diffuse Star Clusters in Early‐Type Galaxies

  • Authors: Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté, Andrés Jordán, John P. Blakeslee, Laura Ferrarese, Simona Mei, Michael J. West, David Merritt, Milos Milosavljević, and John L. Tonry

Peng et al. 2006 The Astrophysical Journal 639 838.

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Caption: Fig. 12.

Size‐magnitude diagram for VCC 798 with 90% completeness curves for different galaxy surface brightnesses. This plot is the same as the bottom left of Fig. 1, except that we have now overplotted our 90% completeness curves for underlying galaxy surface brightnesses of ﹩\mu _{z,\mathrm{galaxy}\,}=18﹩, 19, 20, 21, and 22 mag arcsec−2 as labeled. Notice that at ﹩\mu _{z,\mathrm{galaxy}\,}=19﹩, most of the diffuse clusters become difficult to detect. In Fig. 13 we show where this isophotal surface brightness level lies in the galaxy.

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