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| DOI | 10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/88 | ||||
| Año | 2012 | ||||
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We combine new Wide Field Camera 3 IR Channel (WFC3/IR) F160W (H-160) imaging data for NGC 1399, the central galaxy in the Fornax cluster, with archival F475W (g(475)), F606W (V-606), F814W (I-814), and F850LP (z.(850)) optical data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The purely optical g(475)-I-814, V-606-I-814, and g(475)-z(850) colors of NGC 1399's rich globular cluster (GC) system exhibit clear bimodality, at least for magnitudes I-814 > 21.5. The optical-IR I-814-H-160 color distribution appears unimodal, and this impression is confirmed by mixture modeling analysis. The V-606-H-160 colors show marginal evidence for bimodality, consistent with bimodality in V-606-I-814 and unimodality in I-814-H-160. If bimodality is imposed for I-814-H-160 with a double Gaussian model, the preferred blue/red split differs from that for optical colors; these "differing bimodalities" mean that the optical and optical-IR colors cannot both be linearly proportional to metallicity. Consistent with the differing color distributions, the dependence of I-814-H-160 on g(475)-I-814 for the matched GC sample is significantly nonlinear, with an inflection point near the trough in the g(475)-I-814 color distribution; the result is similar for the I-814-H-160 dependence on g(475)-z(850) colors taken from the ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. These g(475)-z(850) colors have been calibrated empirically against metallicity; applying this calibration yields a continuous, skewed, but single-peaked metallicity distribution. Taken together, these results indicate that nonlinear color-metallicity relations play an important role in shaping the observed bimodal distributions of optical colors in extragalactic GC systems.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Blakeslee, John P. | Hombre |
Natl Res Council Canada - Canadá
National Research Council Canada - Canadá |
| 2 | Cho, Hyejeon | - |
Yonsei Univ - Corea del Sur
Yonsei University - Corea del Sur |
| 3 | Peng, Eric | Hombre |
Peking Univ - China
Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys - China Peking University - China Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics - China |
| 4 | Ferrarese, Laura | Mujer |
Natl Res Council Canada - Canadá
National Research Council Canada - Canadá |
| 5 | JORDAN-COLZANI, ANDRES CRISTOBAL | Hombre |
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines - Chile |
| 6 | Martel, Andre | Hombre |
Natl Res Council Canada - Canadá
Space Telescope Sci Inst - Estados Unidos National Research Council Canada - Canadá STScI - Estados Unidos Space Telescope Science Institute - Estados Unidos |
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| Anillo |
| National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) |
| BASAL CATA |
| NRF |
| Peking University |
| FONDAP CFA |
| Ministry of Economy ICM Nucleus |
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| We are grateful to Patrick Cote, Suk-Jin Yoon, and Michele Cantiello for many helpful discussions, and Caroline Foster for helpful email correspondence. We thank the anonymous referee for an extremely thorough check of our analysis and for providing useful comments. H.C. acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Global Internship Program and from the NRF to the Center for Galaxy Evolution Research; she thanks the National Research Council of Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics for hospitality during her visit. E.W.P. acknowledges the support of the Peking University Hundred Talent Fund (985). A.J. acknowledges support from BASAL CATA PFB-06, FONDAP CFA 15010003, Ministry of Economy ICM Nucleus P07-021-F and Anillo ACT-086. |