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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. 15.

Combined globular cluster color distributions for S0 galaxies with and without a significant population of diffuse clusters. We choose only galaxies with −﹩21.1< M_{B}< -18.8﹩ to create a more uniform comparison. The comparison sample of S0s is listed in Table 2. Both distributions appear bimodal and the means of the two peaks are very similar. The galaxies with DSCs may have a slightly redder red peak, and an excess of red GCs, but this may also be due to the larger luminosity range of these galaxies, in particular the inclusion of VCC 1903 which has a significant red GC subpopulation.

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