Journal article
DETECTABILITY OF GLOBULAR CLUSTER SYSTEMS IN DISTANT GALAXIES.
Abstract
A simple modeling procedure is used to describe the appearance of distant globular cluster systems viewed against background fields at various limiting magnitudes. The 'detectability' of such cluster systems, as a function of magnitude and distance, is described numerically under conditions where the background consists of (1) only field stars, or else (2) all types of images (stellar and nonstellar) together. If faint star/galaxy image …
Authors
Harris WE
Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 95, No. 569, pp. 406–410
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Publication Date
July 1983
DOI
10.1086/131184
ISSN
1538-3873