Wide Field Photometry and Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in NGC 1399

Details Wide Field Photometry and Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in NGC 1399 Wide Field Photometry and Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in NGC 1399

Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.1407g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #14.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1330

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The massive globular cluster system of NGC 1399, the central cD galaxy in the nearby Fornax cluster, has long been a goldmine for studies of globular clusters and what they can tell us about galaxy formation. We have recently obtained a large new database on this cluster system, based on broad-band Washington photometry obtained at the CTIO 4m + MOSAIC II imager and low resolution spectroscopy obtained at the VLT UT2 + FORS2 multiobject spectrometer. This spectroscopic database is especially impressive - our 400 spectra represent the largest such database yet obtained for any globular cluster system. We present preliminary results on a variety of topics including the cluster metallicity distribution, spatial gradients, kinematics and dynamics.

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