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| DOI | 10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/78 | ||||
| Año | 2014 | ||||
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We present a comprehensive high spatial resolution imaging study of globular clusters (GCs) in NGC 1399, the central giant elliptical cD galaxy in the Fornax galaxy cluster, conducted with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Using a novel technique to construct drizzled point-spread function libraries for HST/ACS data, we accurately determine the fidelity of GC structural parameter measurements from detailed artificial star cluster experiments and show the superior robustness of the GC half-light radius, r(h), compared with other GC structural parameters, such as King core and tidal radius. The measurement of r(h) for the major fraction of the NGC 1399 GC system reveals a trend of increasing r(h) versus galactocentric distance, R-gal, out to about 10 kpc and a flat relation beyond. This trend is very similar for blue and red GCs, which are found to have a mean size ratio of r(h),(red)/r(h),(blue) = 0.82 +/- 0.11 at all galactocentric radii from the core regions of the galaxy out to similar to 40 kpc. This suggests that the size difference between blue and red GCs is due to internal mechanisms related to the evolution of their constituent stellar populations. Modeling the mass density profile of NGC 1399 shows that additional external dynamical mechanisms are required to limit the GC size in the galaxy halo regions to r(h) approximate to 2 pc. We suggest that this may be realized by an exotic GC orbit distribution function, an extended dark matter halo, and/or tidal stress induced by the increased stochasticity in the dwarf halo substructure at larger galactocentric distances. We compare our results with the GC r(h) distribution functions in various galaxies and find that the fraction of extended GCs with r(h) >= 5 pc is systematically larger in late-type galaxies compared with GC systems in early-type galaxies. This is likely due to the dynamically more violent evolution of early-type galaxies. We match our GC r(h) measurements with radial velocity data from the literature and split the resulting sample at the median r(h) value into compact and extended GCs. We find that compact GCs show a significantly smaller line-of-sight velocity dispersion, = 225 +/- 25 km s(-1), than their extended counterparts, = 317 +/- 21 km s(-1). Considering the weaker statistical correlation in the GC r(h) color and the GC r(h)-R-gal relations, the more significant GC size-dynamics relation appears to be astrophysically more relevant and hints at the dominant influence of the GC orbit distribution function on the evolution of GC structural parameters.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Puzia, Thomas H. | Hombre |
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
Natl Res Council Canada - Canadá Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines - Chile National Research Council Canada - Canadá |
| 2 | Paolillo, M. | Hombre |
Univ Naples Federico II - Italia
Ist Nazl Fis Nucl - Italia Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Sci Data Ctr - Italia Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - Italia Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli - Italia Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - Italia |
| 3 | Goudfrooij, Paul | Hombre |
Space Telescope Sci Inst - Estados Unidos
STScI - Estados Unidos Space Telescope Science Institute - Estados Unidos |
| 4 | Maccarone, Thomas J. | Hombre |
TEXAS TECH UNIV - Estados Unidos
Texas Tech University - Estados Unidos |
| 5 | Fabbiano, Giuseppina | Mujer |
Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys - Estados Unidos
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Estados Unidos |
| 6 | Angelini, Lorella | Mujer |
NASA - Estados Unidos
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Estados Unidos |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| National Research Council of Canada |
| BASAL Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies |
| Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) |
| University of Napoli Federico II |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration Tecnológico |
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| Support for HST program GO- 10129 was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. This research was supported by FONDECYT Regular Project grant 1121005 and BASAL Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (PFB-06). T. H. P. is thankful for the hospitality and support during his visits at the University of Napoli Federico II, where parts of this work were completed; he also gratefully acknowledges support in the form of a Plaskett Research Fellowship from the National Research Council of Canada. M. P. acknowledges financial support from the FARO 2011 project of the University of Napoli Federico II. This work was partially supported by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC), which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under NASA contract NAS8-03060. We are grateful to Anton Koekemoer and Andy Fruchter for their technical support and useful discussions on the MultiDrizzle code and to Chien Y. Peng for his help with the implementation and testing of the modified GALFIT routine. We thank TomRichtler and Ylva Schuberth for providing their radial velocity measurements ahead of publication, as well as Luis Ho and Zhao-Yu Li for kindly making available to us their latest NGC 1399 surface brightness profile measurements from the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey, again prior to publication. Avon Huxor has very kindly supplied M31 GC data prior to publication. We are grateful to the referee, Bill Harris, for providing a thoughtful and constructive report that helped improve the presentation of the results. We thank Jeremy Webb, Mark Gieles, Andres Jordan, Eric Peng, Chunyan Jiang, Stephen Zepf, and Arunav Kundu for valuable discussions and providing data in electronic format. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST). STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science via grant NNX09AF08G and by other grants and contracts. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Figures 2 and 3 were created with the help of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System. Facility: HST(ACS) |