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astro-ph2004★ 112 cited
Fornax compact object survey FCOS: On the nature of Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies
S. Mieske, M. Hilker, L. Infante
The results of the Fornax Compact Object Survey (FCOS) are presented. The FCOS aims at investigating the nature of the Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs) recently discovered in th…
astro-ph2004★ 37 cited
The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399: III. VLT Spectroscopy and Database
B. Dirsch, T. Richtler, D. Geisler +9
Radial velocities of 468 globular clusters around NGC 1399, the central galaxy in the Fornax cluster, have been obtained with FORS2 and the Mask Exchange Unit (MXU) at the ESO Very…
astro-ph2004★ 114 cited
The Globular Cluster System of NGC 1399. II. Kinematics of a Large Sample of Globular Clusters
T. Richtler, B. Dirsch, K. Gebhardt +9
We study the kinematics and dynamics of the globular cluster system of NGC 1399, the central galaxy of the Fornax cluster. The observational data consists of medium resolution spec…