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most citedThe Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXIII. Fundamentals of nuclear star clusters over seven decades in galaxy mass

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54 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Naked Dwarf: Molecular Gas in the Completely Stripped HI Tail of VCC 1249

Bumhyun Lee, Aeree Chung, Paolo Serra +12

We present the first observational hints of the severe removal of both molecular and HI gas from the dwarf galaxy VCC 1249. This extreme stripping event is thought to be driven by…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, Lauren A. MacArthur +51

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a deep, high resolution imaging campaign that used the 1 deg MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carr…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XL. The Morphological Classification of Virgo Cluster Galaxies

Max M. Kurzner, Patrick Côté, Laura Ferrarese +19

We present a study of morphologies, based on deep imaging of the Virgo Cluster from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS), for 3689…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of nuclear star clusters

Mélina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Pierre-Alain Duc +8

In dwarf galaxies, nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are believed to primarily form from the migration and merger of globular clusters (GCs), with a possible contribution from in-situ s…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies

Mélina Poulain, Rory Smith, Pierre-Alain Duc +8

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe. They can be found at the center of all galaxy types, but tend to favor galaxies of intermediate stella…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Globular Cluster System of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615

J. Christopher Mihos, Patrick R. Durrell, Elisa Toloba +5

We use Hubble Space Telescope imaging to study the globular cluster system of the Virgo Cluster ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG) VCC 615. We select globular cluster candidates through a c…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Spatial Distribution of Globular Cluster Systems in Early Type Galaxies: Estimation Procedure and Catalog of Properties for Globular Cluster Systems Observed with Deep Imaging Surveys

Sungsoon Lim, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté +18

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 nearby early-type galaxies in the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) and Mass As…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: The satellite system of NGC474 under scrutiny with MUSE

Oliver Müller, Francine R. Marleau, Nick Heesters +12

A recent study of the distribution of dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS sample in galaxy groups revealed an excess of flattened satellite structures, reminiscent of the co-rotating plan…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Globular Cluster Systems of 74 Ultra Diffuse Galaxies

Francine R. Marleau, Pierre-Alain Duc, Melina Poulain +7

Ultra diffuse galaxies, characterized by their low surface brightness and large physical size, constitute a subclass of dwarf galaxies that challenge our current understanding of g…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVII.The Size and Structure of Globular Cluster Systems and their Connection to Dark Matter Halos

Sungsoon Lim, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté +18

We study the size and structure of globular clusters (GC) systems of 118 early-type galaxies from the NGVS, MATLAS, and ACSVCS surveys. Fitting Sérsic profiles, we investigate the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Constraining the stellar populations of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS survey using spectral energy distribution fitting

Maria Luisa Buzzo, Duncan A. Forbes, Thomas H. Jarrett +12

We use spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to place constraints on the stellar populations of 59 ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the low-to-moderate density fields of the M…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 37 cited

An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters

Kaixiang Wang, Eric W. Peng, Chengze Liu +21

Systematic studies have revealed hundreds of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) in the nearby Universe. With half-light radii of approximately 10-100 parsecs and stellar mas…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

The creation of a massive UCD by tidal threshing from NGC 936

Sanjaya Paudel, Pierre-Alain Duc, Sungsoon Lim +9

We study a compact nucleus embedded in an early-type dwarf galaxy, MATLAS-167, which is in the process of disruption by the tidal force of the neighboring giant S0 galaxy, NGC 936,…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 33 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXV. First Kinematical Clues of Overly-Massive Dark Matter Halos in Several Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

Elisa Toloba, Laura V. Sales, Sungsoon Lim +8

We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of the first complete sample of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Virgo cluster. We select all UDGs in Virgo that contain at least 10 globula…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 26 cited

Radial velocities and stellar population properties of 56 MATLAS dwarf galaxies observed with MUSE

Nick Heesters, Oliver Müller, Francine R. Marleau +6

Dwarf galaxies have been extensively studied in the Local Group, in nearby groups, and selected clusters, giving us a robust picture of their global stellar and dynamical propertie…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 7 cited

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIII. Stellar Population Gradients in the Virgo Cluster Core Globular Cluster System

Youkyung Ko, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté +24

We present a study of the stellar populations of globular clusters (GCs) in the Virgo Cluster core with a homogeneous spectroscopic catalog of 692 GCs within a major axis distance…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited

The Color Gradients of the Globular Cluster Systems in M87 and M49

Yiming Wu, Chengze Liu, Eric W. Peng +8

Combining data from the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey (ACSVCS) and the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS), we extend previous studies of color gradients of the globular cluster…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

HI observations of the MATLAS dwarf and ultra-diffuse galaxies

Melina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas +8

The presence of HI gas in galaxies is inextricably linked to their morphology and evolution. This paper aims to understand the HI content of the already identified 2210 dwarfs loca…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 14 cited

The Distance and Dynamical History of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615

J. Christopher Mihos, Patrick R. Durrell, Elisa Toloba +6

We use deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging to derive a distance to the Virgo Cluster ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG) VCC 615 using the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) distance estimat…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 64 cited

Ultra diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields

Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas, Melina Poulain +10

Recent advances in deep dedicated imaging surveys over the past decade have uncovered a surprisingly large number of extremely faint low surface brightness galaxies with large phys…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 67 cited

Structure and morphology of the MATLAS dwarf galaxies and their central nuclei

Melina Poulain, Francine R. Marleau, Rebecca Habas +10

We present a photometric study of the dwarf galaxy population in the low to moderate density environments of the MATLAS (Mass Assembly of early-Type gaLAxies with their fine Struct…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 54 cited

Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of the globular cluster system in the ultra-diffuse galaxy MATLAS-2019

Oliver Müller, Patrick R. Durrell, Francine R. Marleau +11

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are very low-surface brightness galaxies with large effective radii. Spectroscopic measurements of a few UDGs have revealed a low dark matter content,…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Two Faint Dwarf Satellites of Nearby LMC Analogs from MADCASH

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, Denija Crnojevic +11

We present a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging study of two dwarf galaxies in the halos of Local Volume Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) analogs. These dwarfs were discovered a…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 4 cited

Mysterious Globular Cluster System of the Peculiar Massive Galaxy M85

Youkyung Ko, Myung Gyoon Lee, Hong Soo Park +4

We present a study on stellar population and kinematics of globular clusters (GCs) in the peculiar galaxy M85. We obtain optical spectra of 89 GCs at 8 kpc 160 kpc using th…