Detection of a Large Scale Structure of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster

Details Detection of a Large Scale Structure of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster Detection of a Large Scale Structure of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster

2010-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/1003.2499v1

Science 328, 334 (2010)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

18 pages, 6 figures, Accepted by Science (Science Express 11 mar 2010)

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Globular clusters are found usually in galaxies and they are an excellent tracer of dark matter. Long ago it was suggested that there may exist intracluster globular clusters (IGCs) bound to a galaxy cluster rather than to any single galaxy. Here we present a map showing the large scale distribution of globular clusters over the entire Virgo cluster. It shows that IGCs are found out to 5 million light years from the Virgo center, and that they are concentrated in several substructures much larger than galaxies. These objects might have been mostly stripped off from low-mass dwarf galaxies.

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