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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. 6.

Color distributions of diffuse sources (black line) compared to that for expected background contamination (filled gray area) for the 12 galaxies in Table 1. Galaxies are ordered by decreasing B luminosity. All histograms use 0.1 mag bins. Notice that the colors of the diffuse sources are redder than that the typical background contaminant. While the distribution of diffuse sources blueward of ﹩( g-z) _{0}\sim 1.0﹩ is generally well matched by the control fields, these galaxies clearly harbor an excess of red sources.

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