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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. 5.

Size‐magnitude diagrams for the 12 galaxies that have significant diffuse source excesses, listed in Table 1. Using the algorithm described in the text, we assign a GC probability based on its position in the ﹩r_{h}- z_{0}﹩ diagram. Objects are color coded by their probability of being a globular cluster. On the left are the objects in our program fields, and on the right are the objects in the custom control fields for that galaxy, scaled to a single field. Each one of these galaxies shows at least a 3 σ excess of diffuse sources as compared to the control fields.

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