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Globular clusters in the Fornax cluster: A report from the FDS survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Michele Cantiello Open the ORCID record for Michele Cantiello [Opens in a new window] ,
A. Venhola ,
M. Paolillo Open the ORCID record for M. Paolillo [Opens in a new window] ,
R. D’Abrusco ,
A. Grado ,
E. Iodice ,
R. Peletier ,
M. Capaccioli ,
M. Hilker Open the ORCID record for M. Hilker [Opens in a new window]  and
S. Mieske
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Michele Cantiello
Affiliation:
INAF Astronomical Observatory of Abruzzo, via Maggini snc, 64100Teramo, Italy email: michele.cantiello@inaf.it
A. Venhola
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Finland
M. Paolillo
Affiliation:
University of Naples, Italy
R. D’Abrusco
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, US
A. Grado
Affiliation:
INAF-Observatory of Naples, Italy
E. Iodice
Affiliation:
INAF-Observatory of Naples, Italy
R. Peletier
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Institute at the University of Groningen, Netherlands
M. Capaccioli
Affiliation:
University of Naples, Italy
M. Hilker
Affiliation:
ESO, Munich, Germany
S. Mieske
Affiliation:
ESO, Santiago, Chile
N. Napolitano
Affiliation:
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
G. Riccio
Affiliation:
University of Naples, Italy
M. Spavone
Affiliation:
INAF-Observatory of Naples, Italy
M. Quintini
Affiliation:
INAF Astronomical Observatory of Abruzzo, via Maggini snc, 64100Teramo, Italy email: michele.cantiello@inaf.it
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Abstract

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The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) is a multi-band imaging survey of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, executed with the ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST). The survey is designed to reach unprecedented surface brightness and point-source magnitude depth over one virial radius of the cluster. The scientific objectives of the survey are numerous: the study of the galaxy luminosity function, derivation of galaxy scaling relations, determination of the properties of compact stellar systems, an accurate determination of distances and 3-D geometry of the Fornax cluster, analysis of diffuse stellar light and galaxy interactions, etc.

In this contribute we give an overview on the interest of the survey on globular clusters (GC) populations, and present a report the status of the study of GCs also providing some preliminary results of our analysis, with particular regard to the two-dimensional distribution of GC candidates over ∼20 sq. degree area of Fornax centered on NGC 1399.

Keywords

Galaxies: star clustersgalaxies: clusters: individual (Fornax)galaxies: photometry
Type
Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S351: Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe , May 2019 , pp. 68 - 71
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020

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