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A Catalog of Globular Cluster Systems: What Determines the Size of a Galaxy's Globular Cluster Population?

Authors: William E. Harris, Gretchen L. H. Harris, and Matthew Alessi

Harris, Harris, & Alessi 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 772 82.

Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Top panel: total number of globular clusters N _GC plotted vs. the K-band luminosity of the host galaxy, for elliptical galaxies. Middle panel: the same plot for S0 galaxies. Bottom panel: the same plot for spiral and irregular galaxies. In all three panels, the sloped line denotes a specific frequency S _N ≡ 1.

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