Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...183.7401b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 183rd AAS Meeting, #74.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.1406
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We have recently obtained wide-field, short exposure CCD images of M104 (The Sombrero). These exposures, taken behind the f/1 focal reducer at the AAT, cover 17 x 17 arcmin and are 300 sec total in both V and R. We are using these data to investigate the spatial structure of the M104 globular cluster system (GCS). In particular, we will determine the radial density profile of the GCS from the galaxy center out to ~ 10 arcmin (corresponding to 30 kpc if D_M104 =10 Mpc). We will then be able to test earlier tentative findings, based on uncalibrated wide-field photographic star--counts and deep CCD frames of limited spatial extent, that there is a `central deficit' of globular clusters relative to the halo light of M104. Such differences in spatial structure between galactic subsystems have important implications for galaxy formation and subsequent dynamical evolution. We will also obtain the flattening of the GCS, and compare to that observed for the halo isophotes (where b/a = 0.6). Preliminary results will be presented at the Jan. 1994 AAS meeting.
Bridges Terry James
Hanes David A.
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