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Measurements of Far-UV Emission from Elliptical Galaxies at z=0.375
Thomas M. Brown, Henry C. Ferguson, Jean-Michel Deharveng +1
The ``UV upturn'' is a sharp rise in spectra of elliptical galaxies shortward of rest-frame 2500 A. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nearby giant elliptical galaxies, and is though…
The Specific Globular Cluster Frequencies of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope
B. W. Miller, J. M. Lotz, H. C. Ferguson +2
The specific globular cluster frequencies (S_N) for 24 dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Clusters and the Leo Group imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope are…
An Extremely Red r^{1/4} Galaxy in the Test Image of the Hubble Deep Field South
T. Treu, M. Stiavelli, A. R. Walker +14
We report the serendipitous discovery of an extremely red object in the Hubble Deep Field South (HDFS) Test NICMOS (Near Infrared Camera and Multi Object Spectrograph) field of vie…
The Fading Optical Counterpart of GRB~970228, Six Months and One Year Later
A. S. Fruchter, E. Pian, S. E. Thorsett +20
We report on observations of the fading optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 970228, made with the Hubble Space Telescope STIS CCD approximately six months after outburst…
Globular Clusters in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
B. W. Miller, H. C. Ferguson, J. Lotz +2
Globular clusters (GCs) provide one way of determining when the most important periods of star formation in dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies occurred. Thus, they are also useful for…
The Opacity of Nearby Galaxies from Colors and Counts of Background Galaxies: I. The Synthetic Field Method and its Application to NGC 4536 and NGC 3664
Rosa A. Gonzalez, R. J. Allen, Boris Dirsch +3
We describe a new, direct method for determining the opacity of foreground galaxies which does not require any a priori assumptions about the spatial distribution or the reddening…
Color--Luminosity Relations for the Resolved Hot Stellar Populations in the Centers of M 31 and M 32
T. M. Brown, H. C. Ferguson, S. A. Stanford +1
We present Faint Object Camera (FOC) ultraviolet images of the central 14x14'' of Messier 31 and Messier 32. The hot stellar population detected in the composite UV spectra of thes…
Detection of intergalactic red-giant-branch stars in the Virgo cluster
Henry C. Ferguson, Nial R. Tanvir, Ted von Hippel
It has been suspected for nearly 50 years that clusters of galaxies contain a population of intergalactic stars, ripped from galaxies during cluster formation or when the galaxies'…
The Hubble Deep Field and the Disappearing Dwarf Galaxies
Henry C. Ferguson, Arif Babul
Several independent lines of reasoning suggest that many of the very faint (B > 24) blue galaxies are low-mass objects that experienced a short epoch of star formation at redshifts…