most citedThe AIMSS Project I: Bridging the Star Cluster - Galaxy Divide

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astro-ph.GA2014★ 42 cited

The SLUGGS survey: Globular cluster stellar population trends from weak absorption lines in stacked spectra

Christopher Usher, Duncan A. Forbes, Jean P. Brodie +7

As part of the SLUGGS survey, we stack 1137 Keck DEIMOS spectra of globular clusters from 10 galaxies to study their stellar populations in detail. The stacked spectra have median…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 45 cited

The AIMSS Project II: Dynamical-to-Stellar Mass Ratios Across the Star Cluster - Galaxy Divide

Duncan A. Forbes, Mark A. Norris, Jay Strader +5

The previously clear division between small galaxies and massive star clusters is now occupied by objects called ultra compact dwarfs (UCDs) and compact ellipticals (cEs). Here we…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 191 cited

The AIMSS Project I: Bridging the Star Cluster - Galaxy Divide

Mark A. Norris, Sheila J. Kannappan, Duncan A. Forbes +15

We describe the structural and kinematic properties of the first compact stellar systems discovered by the AIMSS project. These spectroscopically confirmed objects have sizes ($\si…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 15 cited

Extended Star Clusters in NGC 1023 from HST/ACS Mosaic Imaging

Duncan Forbes, Andres Almeida, Lee Spitler +1

Faint fuzzies are a relatively new class of star cluster, first found in the nearby S0 galaxy NGC 1023 by Larsen & Brodie using WFPC2 images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 189 cited

The SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey (SLUGGS): Sample definition, methods, and initial results

Jean P. Brodie, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jay Strader +14

We introduce and provide the scientific motivation for a wide-field photometric and spectroscopic chemodynamical survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs) and their globular clus…