Journal article
Simultaneous modelling of the stellar halo and globular cluster system of NGC 5128
Abstract
An important test for models of galaxy formation lies in the metallicity distribution functions (MDFs) of spheroid stars and their globular clusters (GCs). We have compared the MDFs obtained from spectroscopy of the GCs and the star-by-star photometry of the old halo red giants in the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, with the predictions of a Λ-cold dark matter (ΛCDM) semi-analytic galaxy formation model. We have selected model ellipticals …
Authors
Beasley MA; Harris WE; Harris GLH; Forbes DA
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 340, No. 1, pp. 341–352
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
March 21, 2003
DOI
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06304.x
ISSN
0035-8711