The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Half-light radii of globular clusters in early-type galaxies: Environmental dependencies and a standard ruler for distance estimation

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 634, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 1002-1019

  Jordán, Andrés ^a,b   Côté, Patrick ^c,d   Blakeslee, John P ^e   Ferrarese, Laura ^c,d   McLaughlin, Dean E ^f   Mei, Simona ^e   Peng, Eric W ^c   Tonry, John L ^g   Merritt, David ^h   Milosavljevič, Miloš ⁱ   Sarazin, Craig L ^j   Sivakoff, Gregory R ^j   West, Michael J ^k  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: star clusters; Globular clusters: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244437853     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/497092     Document Type: Article

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