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THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER SYSTEMS IN THE COMA ELLIPTICALS. IV: WFPC2 PHOTOMETRY FOR FIVE GIANT ELLIPTICALS **Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555., ****This research used the facilities of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre operated by the National Research Council of Canada with the support of the Canadian Space Agency.

Abstract

We analyze photometric data in V and I for the globular cluster (GC) systems in five of the giant ellipticals in the Coma Cluster: NGC 4874, 4881, 4889, 4926, and IC 4051. All of the raw data, from the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 Archive, are analyzed in a homogeneous way so that their five cluster systems can be strictly intercompared. We find that the GC luminosity functions are quite similar to one another and …

Authors

Harris WE; Kavelaars JJ; Hanes DA; Pritchet CJ; Baum WA

Journal

The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 137, No. 2, pp. 3314–3328

Publisher

American Astronomical Society

Publication Date

February 1, 2009

DOI

10.1088/0004-6256/137/2/3314

ISSN

0004-6256