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Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Globular Cluster System in the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy MATLAS-2019

Mueller, Oliver  
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Durrell, Patrick R.
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Marleau, Francine R.
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December 1, 2021
The Astrophysical Journal

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are very-low-surface-brightness galaxies with large effective radii. Spectroscopic measurements of a few UDGs have revealed a low dark-matter content based on the internal motion of stars or globular clusters (GCs). This is in contrast to the large number of GCs found for these systems, from which it would be expected to correspond to a large dark-matter halo mass. Here we present HST+ACS observations for the UDG MATLAS-2019 in the NGC 5846 group. Using the F606W and F814W filters, we trace the GC population two magnitudes below the peak of the GC luminosity function (GCLF). Employing Bayesian considerations, we identify 26 +/- 6 GCs associated with the dwarf, yielding a large specific frequency of S ( N ) = 58 +/- 14. We use the turnover of the GCLF to derive a distance of 21 +/- 2 Mpc, which is consistent with the NGC 5846 group of galaxies. Due to the superior image quality of the HST, we are able to resolve the GCs and measure their sizes, which are consistent with the sizes of GCs around Local Group galaxies. Using the linear relation between the total mass of galaxies and of GCs, we derive a halo mass of 0.9 +/- 0.2 x 10(11) M (circle dot) (M (circle dot)/L (circle dot) > 1000). The high abundance of GCs, together with the small uncertainties, make MATLAS-2019 one of the most extreme UDGs, which likely sets an upper limit of the number of GCs for UDGs.

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DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ac2831
Web of Science ID

WOS:000728138200001

Author(s)
Mueller, Oliver  
Durrell, Patrick R.
Marleau, Francine R.
Duc, Pierre-Alain
Lim, Sungsoon
Posti, Lorenzo
Agnello, Adriano
Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben
Poulain, Melina
Habas, Rebecca
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Date Issued

2021-12-01

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

923

Issue

1

Start page

9

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

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generation virgo cluster

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surface brightness galaxies

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halo mass

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perseus cluster

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local group

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lambda-cdm

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origin

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populations

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discovery

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abundance

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