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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXVI. Caught in the Act of Transformation: Morphological Decomposition and Classification of Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

  • Authors: Kaixiang Wang, Eric W. Peng, Chengze Liu, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, J. Christopher Mihos, Matthew A. Taylor, John P. Blakeslee, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Pierre-Alain Duc, Puragra Guhathakurta, Stephen Gwyn, Youkyung Ko, Ariane Lançon, Sungsoon Lim, Lauren A. MacArthur, Thomas Puzia, Joel Roediger, Laura V. Sales, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Chelsea Spengler, Elisa Toloba, Hong-Xin Zhang, Mingcheng Zhu

Kaixiang Wang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 .

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Caption: Figure 10.

Comparison of the spatial distribution of our eUCD sample and strongly nucleated dE sample—before (left) and after (right) our 2021–2022 Gemini programs. Red solid circles and red open circles represent confirmed eUCDs and eUCD candidates. Blue solid circles and open circles represent strongly nucleated dEs and candidates, respectively. Gray open circles in the right panel are 21 background galaxies confirmed by GMOS observation. The spectroscopic completeness of eUCD candidates has been substantially improved by the Gemini program; only one possible eUCD has not been confirmed. Although only 15 of 51 strongly nucleated dE candidates have been confirmed, the contamination fraction for the remaining 36 candidates is expected to be low.

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