An Update on the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys
Abstract
We present a brief update on the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys — Hubble Space Telescope programs to obtain ACS imaging for 143 early-type galaxies in the two galaxy clusters nearest to the Milky Way. We summarize a selection of science highlights from the surveys as including new results on the central structure of early-type galaxies, the apparent continuity of photometric and structural parameters between dwarf and giant galaxies, and the properties of globular clusters, diffuse star clusters and ultra-compact dwarf galaxies.
- Publication:
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Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921308016013
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..246..377C
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- cD galaxies: fundamental parameters;
- galaxies: nuclei;
- galaxies: photometry;
- galaxies: star clusters;
- galaxies: structure