The ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys were unprecedented surveys of early-type galaxies belonging to two benchmark clusters in the local universe, Virgo and Fornax. The surveys were based on ACS imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and helped change the way astronomers think about galaxy formation.
Left: An intermediate-luminosity galaxy (VCC1431) in the Virgo Cluster observed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on HST as part of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, which targeted 100 early-type galaxies (Cote et al. 2004). Note the central nucleus or “luminosity excess” (see below). A similar survey of the Fornax Cluster, targeting 43 galaxies, is described in Jordan et al. (2007). Top: The ACS/WFC CCDs before the camera was assembled.
The ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys were unprecedented surveys of early-type galaxies belonging to two benchmark clusters in the local universe, Virgo and Fornax. The surveys were based on ACS imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and helped change the way astronomers think about galaxy formation.
The ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys were unprecedented surveys of early-type galaxies belonging to two benchmark clusters in the local universe, Virgo and Fornax. The surveys were based on ACS imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and helped change the way astronomers think about galaxy formation.
The ACS Virgo and Fornax cluster surveys produced more than two dozen publications on topics ranging from the core and global structure of early-type galaxies, to globular cluster systems, new families of hot stellar systems (such as “Ultra Compact Dwarf Galaxies” and “Faint Fuzzies”) and the extragalactic distance scale. Some scientific highlights and data products from the surveys include:
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The first simultaneous characterization of the central and global structure for a large sample of early-type galaxies in the nearby universe (Virgo), made possible by the large field of view of the ACS instrument on HST (Ferrarese et al. 2006a; Cote et al. 2006; Cote et al. 2007).
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The demonstration that the Sersic family of models provides a remarkably accurate description of the brightness profiles of early-type galaxies spanning nearly three orders of magnitude in luminosity (i.e., from “giant” to “dwarf” galaxies, Ferrarese et al. 2006a). These findings build upon pioneering studies by Caon et al. (1993), Graham et al. (2003), Graham & Guzman (2003) and Jerjen & Binggeli (1997).
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The finding of a systematic transition from a central luminosity “deficit” to “excess” in the central regions of galaxies, relative to the global Sersic model fit, and a dramatic upward revision of the frequency of distinct nuclear components in the centers of low- and intermediate-luminosity galaxies (Ferrarese et al. 2006a; Cote et al. 2006; Cote et al. 2007). Once again, see the series of earlier papers by Graham and collaborators, including Graham et al. (2003), Graham & Guzman (2003) and Trujillo et al. (2004), as well as Carolla et al. (1998), Boker et al. (2002, 2004), Lotz et al. (2004) and Grant et al. (2005).
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The realization that these central excesses/nuclei probably arise, for at least some galaxies, through gas inflows and starbursts expected in mergers and accretions, as had been predicted by numerical models (Cote et al. 2006, Cote et al. 2007). See also Mihos & Hernquist (1994), who anticipated these results using pioneering numerical simulations.
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The discovery that the light “excesses” (i.e., compact stellar nuclei) in the faintest galaxies contain roughly the same percentage of the total galaxy mass as do the Supermassive Black Holes (SBHs) in the brightest galaxies, suggesting a possible link between these two components (Ferrarese et al. 2006b, Cote et al. 2006). See the contemporaneous papers by Rossa et al. (2006) and Wehner and Harris (2006), and the comprehensive subsequent study by Seth et al. (2008).
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A demonstration that the early-type galaxy populations do not show a dramatic “dichotomy” in terms of their central brightness profile slopes, as was previously believed; the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey was the first study to show that the previously reported class of “power-law galaxies” actually have a two-component structure on small scales (Ferrarese et al. 2006a; Cote et al. 2007). Once again, see also Jerjen & Binggeli (1997), Graham & Guzman (2003), as well as Rest et al. (2001) and Ravindranath et al. (2001).
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A large and homogeneous catalog of more than ≈ 10,000 globular cluster candidates in early-type galaxies (Jordan et al. 2009).
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The demonstration that the fundamental properties of globular cluster systems show unexpected continuous trends with host galaxy luminosity. Specific examples include their luminosity functions, size distributions, color/metallicity distributions, and formation efficiencies (Jordan et al.2005, 2006, 2007; Peng et al. 2006a,b, 2008; Mieske et al. 2006, 2010; Sivakoff et al. 2007; Masters et al. 2010; Villegas et al. 2010). These results build upon a number of previous studies by other researchers, including Gebhardt & Kissler-Patig (1998), Larsen et al. (2001) and Kundu et al. (2001).
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The discovery of Ultra-Compact Dwarf (UCD) galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the first measurements for the dynamical masses of these systems, and the discovery of an apparently fundamental transition between globular clusters and UCDs at ≈ 2-3 million solar masses (Hasegan et al. 2005).
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The measurement of accurate SBF distances (i.e., typical errors of ≈ 0.5 Mpc) for a large sample of galaxies in both the Virgo and Fornax Clusters, the direct measurement of the line-of-sight depth of Virgo and a precise measurement of the relative distance of the two clusters (Mei et al. 2005a,b, 2007; Blakeslee et al. 2009).
Please see the science highlights to learn more about these and other topics. To read or download individual papers, see the publications section.
The Survey Teams
The Survey Teams
The ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys were unprecedented surveys of early-type galaxies belonging to two benchmark clusters in the local universe, Virgo and Fornax. The surveys were based on ACS imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and helped change the way astronomers think about galaxy formation.
Program Galaxies
Left: An intermediate-luminosity galaxy (VCC1431) in the Virgo Cluster observed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on HST as part of the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, which targeted 100 early-type galaxies (Cote et al. 2004). Note the central nucleus or “luminosity excess” (see below). A similar survey of the Fornax Cluster, targeting 43 galaxies, is described in Jordan et al. (2007). Top: The ACS/WFC CCDs before the camera was assembled.
The Virgo Cluster is the rich cluster nearest to the Milky Way, and the dominant mass concentration in the local universe. It also represents the nearest large collection of early-type (red sequence) galaxies within ~50 Mpc. At a distance of ≈16.5 Mpc, it has historically played a central role in furthering our understanding of galaxy evolution, supermassive black holes, the extragalactic distance scale, the intracluster medium, extragalactic star clusters, and countless other topics in modern astrophysics.
The Virgo Cluster is the rich cluster nearest to the Milky Way, and the dominant mass concentration in the local universe. It also represents the nearest large collection of early-type (red sequence) galaxies within ~50 Mpc. At a distance of ≈16.5 Mpc, it has historically played a central role in furthering our understanding of galaxy evolution, supermassive black holes, the extragalactic distance scale, the intracluster medium, extragalactic star clusters, and countless other topics in modern astrophysics.
The Fornax Cluster is smaller and more compact than Virgo. At a slightly larger distance of ≈20.0 Mpc, it offers an unique opportunity to study the fossil record of galaxy formation in rather different environment than the Virgo Cluster.
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS)
Publications
Since 2012, nearly 50 refereed papers have been published by the NGVS team on "core" science. These total excludes papers published jointly with other teams and surveys.
The following list of NGVS publications has been divided into three categories:
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The Virgo cluster: galaxies, star clusters, planetary nebulae, intracluster medium, dynamics, dark matter
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The outer solar system and Milky Way halo.
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Background blusters and galaxies, weak lensing, photometric redshifts
Refereed NGVS Publications: The Virgo Cluster
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the Survey"
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 200, Issue 1, article id. 4, 42 pp. (2012).
Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Peng, Eric W.; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Boselli, A.; Mei, Simona; Erben, Thomas; McConnachie, Alan W.; Durrell, Patrick R.; Mihos, J. Christopher; Jordán, Andrés; Lançon, Ariane; Puzia, Thomas H.; Emsellem, Eric; Balogh, Michael L.; Blakeslee, John P.; van Waerbeke, Ludovic Gavazzi, Raphaël; Vollmer, Bernd; Kavelaars, J. J.; Woods, David; Ball, Nicholas M.; Boissier, S.; Courteau, Stéphane; Ferriere, E.; Gavazzi, G.; Hildebrandt, Hendrik; Hudelot, P.; Huertas-Company, M.; Liu, Chengze; McLaughlin, Dean; Mellier, Y.; Milkeraitis, Martha; Schade, David; Balkowski, Chantal; Bournaud, Frédéric; Carlberg, R. G.; Chapman, S. C.; Hoekstra, Henk; Peng, Chien; Sawicki, Marcin; Simard, Luc; Taylor, James E.; Tully, R. Brent; van Driel, Wim; Wilson, Christine D.; Burdullis, Todd; Mahoney, Billy; Manset, Nadine
"Stripped gas as fuel for newly formed H ii regions in the encounter between VCC 1249 and M 49: a unified picture from NGVS and GUViCS"
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 543, id.A112, 19 pp.
Arrigoni Battaia, F.; Gavazzi, G.; Fumagalli, M.; Boselli, A.; Boissier, S.; Cortese, L.; Heinis, S.; Ferrarese, L.; Côté, P.; Mihos, J. C.; Cuillandre, J. C.; Duc, P. -A.; Durrell, P.; Gwyn, S.; Jordán, A.; Liu, C.; Peng, E.; Mei, S.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. NGC 4216: A Bombarded Spiral in the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 767, Issue 2, article id. 133, 11 pp. (2013).
Paudel, Sanjaya; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Ferrarese, Laura; Ferriere, Etienne; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Mihos, J. Christopher; Vollmer, Bernd; Balogh, Michael L.; Carlberg, Ray G.; Boissier, Samuel; Boselli, Alessandro; Durrell, Patrick R.; Emsellem, Eric; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Mei, Simona; Michel-Dansac, Leo; van Driel, Wim
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey-Infrared (NGVS-IR). I. A New Near-Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-Infrared Globular Cluster Selection Tool"
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 210, Issue 1, article id. 4, 23 pp. (2014).
Muñoz, Roberto P.; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Peng, Eric W.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Blakeslee, John P.; Mei, Simona; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Hudelot, Patrick; Courteau, Stéphane; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Balogh, Michael L.; Boselli, Alessandro; Bournaud, Frédéric; Carlberg, Raymond G.; Chapman, Scott C.; Durrell, Patrick; Eigenthaler, Paul; Emsellem, Eric Gavazzi, Giuseppe; Gwyn, Stephen; Huertas-Company, Marc; Ilbert, Olivier; Jordán, Andrés; Läsker, Ronald; Licitra, Rossella; Liu, Chengze; MacArthur, Lauren; McConnachie, Alan; McCracken, Henry Joy; Mellier, Yannick; Peng, Chien Y.; Raichoor, Anand; Taylor, Matthew A.; Tonry, John L.; Tully, R. Brent; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. V. Modeling the Dynamics of M87 with the Made-to-measure Method"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 792, Issue 1, article id. 59, 18 pp. (2014).
Zhu, Ling; Long, R. J.; Mao, Shude; Peng, Eric W.; Liu, Chengze; Caldwell, Nelson; Li, Biao; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Durrell, Patrick; Emsellem, Eric; Ferrarese, Laura; Gwyn, Stephen; Jordán, Andrés; Lançon, Ariane; Mei, Simona; Muñoz, Roberto; Puzia, Thomas
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VIII. The Spatial Distribution of Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 794, Issue 2, article id. 103, 20 pp. (2014).
Durrell, Patrick R.; Côté, Patrick; Peng, Eric W.; Blakeslee, John P.; Ferrarese, Laura; Mihos, J. Christopher; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Liu, Chengze; Zhang, Hongxin; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; McConnachie, Alan; Jordán, Andrés; Accetta, Katharine; Boissier, Samuel; Boselli, Alessandro; Courteau, Stéphane; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Emsellem, Eric; Gwyn, Stephen Mei, Simona; Taylor, James E.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. The Kinematics of Ultra-compact Dwarfs and Globular Clusters in M87"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 802, Issue 1, article id. 30, 26 pp. (2015).
Zhang, Hong-Xin; Peng, Eric W.; Côté, Patrick; Liu, Chengze; Ferrarese, Laura; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Caldwell, Nelson; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Jordán, Andrés; Lançon, Ariane; Li, Biao; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Puzia, Thomas H.; Bekki, Kenji; Blakeslee, John P.; Boselli, Alessandro; Drinkwater, Michael J.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Durrell, Patrick; Emsellem, Eric Firth, Peter; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén
"Galaxies at the Extremes: Ultra-diffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 809, Issue 2, article id. L21, 7 pp. (2015).
Mihos, J. Christopher; Durrell, Patrick R.; Ferrarese, Laura; Feldmeier, John J.; Côté, Patrick; Peng, Eric W.; Harding, Paul; Liu, Chengze; Gwyn, Stephen; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
"The Most Massive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 812, Issue 1, article id. L2, 6 pp. (2015).
Liu, Chengze; Peng, Eric W.; Toloba, Elisa; Mihos, J. Christopher; Ferrarese, Laura; Alamo-Martínez, Karla; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Cunningham, Emily C.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Gwyn, Stephen; Herczeg, Gregory; Lim, Sungsoon; Puzia, Thomas H.; Roediger, Joel; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Yin, Jun
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. IX. Estimating the Efficiency of Galaxy Formation on the Lowest-mass Scales"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 807, Issue 1, article id. 88, 16 pp. (2015).
Grossauer, Jonathan; Taylor, James E.; Ferrarese, Laura; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Côté, Patrick; Roediger, Joel; Courteau, Stéphane; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Durrell, Patrick R.; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Jordán, Andrés; Mei, Simona; Peng, Eric W.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Properties of Ultra-compact Dwarfs in the M87, M49, and M60 Regions"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 812, Issue 1, article id. 34, 45 pp. (2015).
Liu, Chengze; Peng, Eric W.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Jordán, Andrés; Mihos, J. Christopher; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Gwyn, Stephen; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Blakeslee, John P.; Boselli, Alessandro; Durrell, Patrick R.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Guhathakurta, Puragra; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Mei, Simona; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén Xu, Haiguang
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XII. Stellar Populations and Kinematics of Compact, Low-mass Early-type Galaxies from Gemini GMOS-IFU Spectroscopys"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 804, Issue 1, article id. 70, 17 pp. (2015).
Guérou, Adrien; Emsellem, Eric; McDermid, Richard M.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Blakeslee, John P.; Durrell, Patrick R.; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Peng, Eric W.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen
"NGC 4370: a case study for testing our ability to infer dust distribution and mass in nearby galaxies"
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 579, id.A103, 16 pp.
Viaene, S.; De Geyter, G.; Baes, M.; Fritz, J.; Bendo, G. J.; Boquien, M.; Boselli, A.; Bianchi, S.; Cortese, L.; Côté, P.; Cuillandre, J. -C.; De Looze, I.; di Serego Alighieri, S.; Ferrarese, L.; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Hughes, T. M.; Pappalardo, C.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. The Intrinsic Shapes of Low-luminosity Galaxies in the Core of the Virgo Cluster, and a Comparison with the Local Group"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 820, Issue 1, article id. 69, 16 pp. (2016).
Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Ferrarese, Laura; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Côté, Patrick; Blakeslee, John P.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Durrell, Patrick; Gwyn, Stephen; McConnacchie, Alan W.; Boselli, Alessandro; Courteau, Stéphane; Emsellem, Eric; Mei, Simona; Peng, Eric; Puzia, Thomas H.; Roediger, Joel; Simard, Luc; Boyer, Fred; Santos, Matthew
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIII. The Luminosity and Mass Function of Galaxies in the Core of the Virgo Cluster and the Contribution from Disrupted Satellites"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 824, Issue 1, article id. 10, 22 pp. (2016).
Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Roediger, Joel; McConnachie, Alan W.; Durrell, Patrick R.; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Blakeslee, John P.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Boissier, S.; Boselli, Alessandro; Courteau, Stéphane; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Emsellem, Eric; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Jordán, Andrés; Lançon, Ariane; Liu, Chengze; Mei, Simona Mihos, J. Christopher; Navarro, Julio F.; Peng, Eric W.; Puzia, Thomas H.; Taylor, James E.; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XIX. Tomography of Milky Way Substructures in the NGVS Footprint"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 819, Issue 2, article id. 124, 12 pp. (2016).
Lokhorst, Deborah; Starkenburg, Else; McConnachie, Alan W.; Navarro, Julio F.; Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Liu, Chengze; Peng, Eric W.; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Guhathakurta, Puragra
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey XVI: The Angular Momentum of Dwarf Early-type Galaxies from Globular Cluster Satellites"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 822, Issue 1, article id. 51, 19 pp. (2016).
Toloba, Elisa; Li, Biao; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Peng, Eric W.; Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Emsellem, Eric; Gwyn, Stephen; Zhang, Hongxin; Boselli, Alessandro; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Jordan, Andres; Liu, Chengze
"New Constraints on a Complex Relation between Globular Cluster Colors and Environment"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 829, Issue 1, article id. L5, 7 pp. (2016).
Powalka, Mathieu; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Peng, Eric W.; Schönebeck, Frederik; Alamo-Martínez, Karla; Ángel, Simón; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Durrell, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Grebel, Eva K.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Kuntschner, Harald; Lim, Sungsoon; Liu, Chengze; Lyubenova, Mariya Mihos, J. Christopher; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Ordenes-Briceño, Yasna; Roediger, Joel; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Spengler, Chelsea; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXV. Fiducial Panchromatic Colors of Virgo Core Globular Clusters and Their Comparison to Model Predictions"
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 227, Issue 1, article id. 12, 28 pp. (2016).
Powalka, Mathieu; Lançon, Ariane; Puzia, Thomas H.; Peng, Eric W.; Liu, Chengze; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Roediger, Joel; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Zhang, Hongxin; Durrell, Patrick R.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Hudelot, Patrick; Mei, Simona; Toloba, Elisa
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXII. Shell Feature Early-type Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 834, Issue 1, article id. 66, 13 pp. (2017).
Paudel, Sanjaya; Smith, Rory; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Ferrarese, Laura; Blakeslee, John P.; Boselli, Alessandro; Cantiello, Michele; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Mei, Simona; Mihos, J. Christopher; Peng, Eric W.; Powalka, Mathieu; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXIV. The Red Sequence to ~106 L # and Comparisons with Galaxy Formation Models"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 836, Issue 1, article id. 120, 19 pp. (2017).
Roediger, Joel C.; Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Blakeslee, John P.; Peng, Eric W.; Liu, Chengze; Munoz, Roberto; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen; Mei, Simona; Boissier, Samuel; Boselli, Alessandro; Cantiello, Michele; Courteau, Stéphane; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Lançon, Ariane; Mihos, J. Christopher; Puzia, Thomas H. Taylor, James E.; Durrell, Patrick R.; Toloba, Elisa; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVI. The Issues of Photometric Age and Metallicity Estimates for Globular Clusters"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 844, Issue 2, article id. 104, 18 pp. (2017).
Powalka, Mathieu; Lançon, Ariane; Puzia, Thomas H.; Peng, Eric W.; Liu, Chengze; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Roediger, Joel; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Zhang, Hongxin; Durrell, Patrick R.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Hudelot, Patrick; Mei, Simona; Toloba, Elisa
"Virgo Redux: The Masses and Stellar Content of Nuclei in Early-type Galaxies from Multiband Photometry and Spectroscopy"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 849, Issue 1, article id. 55, 33 pp. (2017).
Spengler, Chelsea; Côté, Patrick; Roediger, Joel; Ferrarese, Laura; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Toloba, Elisa; Liu, Yiqing; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen; Zirm, Andrew; Muñoz, Roberto; Puzia, Thomas; Lançon, Ariane; Peng, Eric W.; Mei, Simona; Powalka, Mathieu
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXII. A Search for Globular Cluster Substructures in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster Core"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 856, Issue 1, article id. 84, 11 pp. (2018).
Powalka, Mathieu; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Longobardi, Alessia; Peng, Eric W.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Alamo-Martínez, Karla; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Durrell, Patrick; Eigenthaler, Paul; Ferrarese, Laura; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Hudelot, Patrick; Liu, Chengze; Mei, Simona; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Roediger, Joel Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XVIII. Measurement and Calibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for Bright Galaxies in Virgo (and Beyond)"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 856, Issue 2, article id. 126, 18 pp. (2018).
Cantiello, Michele; Blakeslee, John P.; Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Roediger, Joel C.; Raimondo, Gabriella; Peng, Eric W.; Gwyn, Stephen; Durrell, Patrick R.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles
"Dark Matter in Ultra-diffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster from Their Globular Cluster Populations"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 856, Issue 2, article id. L31, 8 pp. (2018).
Toloba, Elisa; Lim, Sungsoon; Peng, Eric; Sales, Laura V.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Mihos, J. Christopher; Côté, Patrick; Boselli, Alessandro; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Ferrarese, Laura; Gwyn, Stephen; Lançon, Ariane; Muñoz, Roberto; Puzia, Thomas
"Stellar Population Properties of Ultracompact Dwarfs in M87: A Mass-Metallicity Correlation Connecting Low-metallicity Globular Clusters and Compact Ellipticals"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 858, Issue 1, article id. 37, 11 pp. (2018).
Zhang, Hong-Xin; Puzia, Thomas H.; Peng, Eric W.; Liu, Chengze; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Eigenthaler, Paul; Lim, Sungsoon; Lançon, Ariane; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Roediger, Joel; Sánchez-Janssen, Ruben; Taylor, Matthew A.; Yu, Jincheng
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXI. The Kinematics of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Core of the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 864, Issue 1, article id. 36, 23 pp. (2018).
Longobardi, Alessia; Peng, Eric W.; Côté, Patrick; Mihos, J. Christopher; Ferrarese, Laura; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Blakeslee, John P.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Durrell, Patrick R.; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Toloba, Elisa; Jordán, Andrés; Eyheramendy, Susana; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Boselli, Alessandro; Duc, Pierre-Alain Liu, Chengze; Alamo-Martínez, Karla; Powalka, Mathieu; Lim, Sungsoon
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXIII. Fundamentals of Nuclear Star Clusters over Seven Decades in Galaxy Mass"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 878, Issue 1, article id. 18, 25 pp. (2019).
Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Peng, Eric W.; Roediger, Joel; Blakeslee, John P.; Emsellem, Eric; Puzia, Thomas H.; Spengler, Chelsea; Taylor, James; Álamo-Martínez, Karla A.; Boselli, Alessandro; Cantiello, Michele; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Durrell, Patrick; Gwyn, Stephen; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Lançon, Ariane; Lim, Sungsoon Liu, Chengze; Mei, Simona; Miller, Bryan; Muñoz, Roberto; Mihos, J. Christopher; Paudel, Sanjaya; Powalka, Mathieu; Toloba, Elisa
"How nucleation and luminosity shape faint dwarf galaxies"
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 486, Issue 1, p.L1-L5
Sánchez-Janssen, R.; Puzia, T. H.; Ferrarese, L.; Côté, P.; Eigenthaler, P.; Miller, B.; Ordenes-Briceño, Y.; Peng, E. W.; Ribbeck, K. X.; Roediger, J.; Spengler, C.; Taylor, M. A.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XVII. A Search for Planetary Nebulae in Virgo Cluster Globular Clusters"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 885, Issue 2, article id. 145, 13 pp. (2019).
Sun, Weijia; Peng, Eric W.; Ko, Youkyung; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Lee, Myung Gyoon; Liu, Chengze; Longobardi, Alessia; Chilingarian, Igor V.; Spengler, Chelsea; Zabludoff, Ann I.; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIV. The Discovery of Low-mass Galaxies and a New Galaxy Catalog in the Core of the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 890, Issue 2, id.128, 108 pp. (2020)
Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Durrell, Patrick R.; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben; Santos, Matthew; Blakeslee, John P.; Boselli, Alessandro; Boyer, Fred; Cantiello, Michele; Courteau, Stéphane; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Emsellem, Eric; Erben, Thomas; Gavazzi, Giuseppe; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Huertas-Company, Marc; Jordán, Andrés Lançon, Ariane; Liu, Chengze; Mei, Simona; Mihos, J. Christopher; Peng, Eric W.; Puzia, Thomas H.; Roediger, Joel; Schade, David; Taylor, James E.; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
"The Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VCC 848 Formed by Dwarf-Dwarf Merging"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 891, Issue 1, id.L23, 7 pp. (2020)
Zhang, Hong-Xin; Paudel, Sanjaya; Smith, Rory; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Puzia, Thomas H.; Peng, Eric W.; Côte, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Boselli, Alessandro; Wang, Kaixiang; Oh, Se-Heon
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXX. Ultra-diffuse Galaxies and Their Globular Cluster Systems"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 899, Issue 1, id.69
Lim, Sungsoon; Côté, Patrick; Peng, Eric W.; Ferrarese, Laura; Roediger, Joel C.; Durrell, Patrick R.; Mihos, J. Christopher; Wang, Kaixiang; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Liu, Chengze; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Toloba, Elisa; Sales, Laura V.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Lançon, Ariane; Puzia, Thomas H.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIV. Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster"
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 250, Issue 1, id.17, 28 pp.
Liu, Chengze; Côté, Patrick; Peng, Eric W.; Roediger, Joel; Zhang, Hongxin; Ferrarese, Laura; Sánchez-Janssen, Ruben; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Yang, Xiaohu; Jing, Yipeng; Alamo-Martínez, Karla; Blakeslee, John P.; Boselli, Alessandro; Cuilandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Durrell, Patrick; Gwyn, Stephen; Jordán, Andres; Ko, Youkyung; Lançon, Ariane Lim, Sungsoon; Longobardi, Alessia; Mei, Simona; Mihos, J. Christopher; Muñoz, Roberto; Powalka, Mathieu; Puzia, Thomas; Spengler, Chelsea; Toloba, Elisa
"Fresh Insights on the Kinematics of M49's Globular Cluster System with MMT/Hectospec Spectroscopy"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 915, Issue 2, id.83, 11 pp.
Taylor, Matthew A.; Ko, Youkyung; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Peng, Eric W.; Zabludoff, Ann; Roediger, Joel; Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén; Hendel, David; Chilingarian, Igor; Liu, Chengze; Spengler, Chelsea; Zhang, Hongxin
Refereed NGVS Publications: The Solar System and Milky Way
"Discovery of a New Member of the Inner Oort Cloud from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey"
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 775, Issue 1, article id. L8, 5 pp. (2013).
Chen, Ying-Tung; Kavelaars, J. J.; Gwyn, Stephen; Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Jordán, Andrés; Suc, Vincent; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Ip, Wing-Huen
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XIX. Tomography of Milky Way Substructures in the NGVS Footprint"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 819, Issue 2, article id. 124, 12 pp. (2016).
Lokhorst, Deborah; Starkenburg, Else; McConnachie, Alan W.; Navarro, Julio F.; Ferrarese, Laura; Côté, Patrick; Liu, Chengze; Peng, Eric W.; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Guhathakurta, Puragra
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXVIII. Characterization of the Galactic White Dwarf Population"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 843, Issue 1, article id. 53, 18 pp. (2017).
Fantin, Nicholas J.; Côté, Patrick; Hanes, David A.; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Bianchi, Luciana; Ferrarese, Laura; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; McConnachie, Alan; Starkenburg, Else
Refereed NGVS Publications: Background Clusters and Galaxies, Weak Lensing, Photometric Redshifts
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. The Photometric Redshift Estimation for Background Sources"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 797, Issue 2, article id. 102, 20 pp. (2014).
Raichoor, A.; Mei, S.; Erben, T.; Hildebrandt, H.; Huertas-Company, M.; Ilbert, O.; Licitra, R.; Ball, N. M.; Boissier, S.; Boselli, A.; Chen, Y. -T.; Côté, P.; Cuillandre, J. -C.; Duc, P. A.; Durrell, P. R.; Ferrarese, L.; Guhathakurta, P.; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Kavelaars, J. J.; Lançon, A. Liu, C.; MacArthur, L. A.; Muller, M.; Muñoz, R. P.; Peng, E. W.; Puzia, T. H.; Sawicki, M.; Toloba, E.; Van Waerbeke, L.; Woods, D.; Zhang, H.
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XX. RedGOLD Background Galaxy Cluster Detections"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 829, Issue 1, article id. 44, 16 pp. (2016).
Licitra, Rossella; Mei, Simona; Raichoor, Anand; Erben, Thomas; Hildebrandt, Hendrik; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Ferrarese, Laura; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Huertas-Company, Marc; Lançon, Ariane; Parroni, Carolina; Puzia, Thomas H.
"Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXI. The Weak Lensing Masses of the CFHTLS and NGVS RedGOLD Galaxy Clusters and Calibration of the Optical Richness"
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 848, Issue 2, article id. 114, 20 pp. (2017).
Parroni, Carolina; Mei, Simona; Erben, Thomas; Van Waerbeke, Ludovic; Raichoor, Anand; Ford, Jes; Licitra, Rossella; Meneghetti, Massimo; Hildebrandt, Hendrik; Miller, Lance; Côté, Patrick; Covone, Giovanni; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Ferrarese, Laura; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Puzia, Thomas H.
"A hyper luminous starburst at z = 4.72 magnified by a lensing galaxy pair at z = 1.48"
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 635, id.A27, 14 pp.
Ciesla, L.; Béthermin, M.; Daddi, E.; Richard, J.; Diaz-Santos, T.; Sargent, M. T.; Elbaz, D.; Boquien, M.; Wang, T.; Schreiber, C.; Yang, C.; Zabl, J.; Fraser, M.; Aravena, M.; Assef, R. J.; Baker, A. J.; Beelen, A.; Boselli, A.; Bournaud, F.; Burgarella, D. Charmandaris, V.; Côté, P.; Epinat, B.; Ferrarese, L.; Gobat, R.; Ilbert, O.