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Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems in the Near-IR
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2017
Abstract
Extragalactic Globular Clusters are useful tracers of galaxy formation and evolution. Photometric studies of globular cluster systems beyond the Local Group are still the most popular method to investigate their physical properties, such as their ages and metallicities. However, the limitations of optical photometry are well known. The better wavelength sampling of the underlying cluster's SED using K-band photometry combined with optical passbands allows us to create colors which reduce the age-metallicity degeneracy to the largest extent. Here we report on the very first results of our near-IR photometric survey of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies outside the Local Group.
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- Part 2. Globular Cluster Systems of Distant Galaxies
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 207: Extragalactic Star Clusters , 2002 , pp. 294 - 300
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002
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