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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 15.

Total magnitude vs. the nuclear luminosity fraction (fnuc) for UCDs and nucleated dEs in Virgo. Filled yellow circles represent UCDs (fnuc  =  1). Filled dark red circles represent certain/probable eUCDs. Filled blue circles and squares are strongly nucleated dEs with and without velocity measurements. Gray-filled circles and gray open circles represent Virgo nucleated galaxies with and without velocity measurements. A gray dot indicates the average fnuc and magnitude of eUCDs (﹩{\langle {g}_{\mathrm{tot}}{^{\prime} }\rangle }_{\mathrm{eUCD}}=20.0﹩ mag and ﹩{\langle {f}_{\mathrm{nuc}}\rangle }_{\mathrm{eUCD}}=56 \% ﹩), with error bars of 1σ distribution. The gray dotted line shows the assumed fnuc evolutionary curve with constant nuclear magnitude. The shaded regions represent the 1σ (orange) and 2σ (light blue) boundaries on the evolutionary curve.

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