The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IX. The Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Early‐Type Galaxies. Peng, E., W., Jordan, A., Cote, P., Blakeslee, J., P., Ferrarese, L., Mei, S., West, M., J., Merritt, D., Milosavljević, M., & Tonry, J., L. The Astrophysical Journal, 639(1):95-119, 2006.
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Website abstract bibtex We present the color distributions of globular cluster (GC) systems for 100 early-type galaxies observed in the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey, the deepest and most homogeneous survey of this kind to date. On average, galaxies at all luminosities in our study (-22
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