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Wide-Field Washington Photometry of the NGC 5128 Globular Cluster System. II. Large-Scale Properties of the System

Abstract

Building on the CMT1 photometric database presented in Paper I, in this paper we derive the large-scale properties of the globular cluster system (GCS) in NGC 5128, the nearest giant elliptical and the dominant galaxy in the Centaurus group. In global terms, it has a smaller total population than previously thought: we estimate 980 ± 120 clusters over all magnitudes, yielding a specific frequency SN = 1.4 ± 0.2, with a steep projected radial …

Authors

Harris GLH; Harris WE; Geisler D

Journal

The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 723–735

Publisher

American Astronomical Society

Publication Date

August 2004

DOI

10.1086/421848

ISSN

0004-6256