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Title: Intracluster Stars and the Galactic Halos of Virgo

Authors: John J. Feldmeier (1), Robin Ciardullo (1), Roger Bartlett (1), George H. Jacoby (2) ((1)Penn State University, (2) Kitt Peak National Observatory)
Abstract: Planetary nebulae can be useful dynamical probes of elliptical galaxy halos, but progress thus far has been hampered by the small data samples available for study. In order to obtain a large sample of planetary nebulae for dynamical analysis, we have re-observed the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in the center of the Virgo Cluster. Surprisingly, we find that the M87 sample is contaminated by a significant fraction of intracluster objects. Follow up observations of three blank fields in the cluster confirm that a significant fraction of Virgo's starlight is intracluster. We discuss the implications of intracluster stars for studies of galaxy halos in clusters.
Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures; LaTeX; paspconf.sty and epsf.sty included. To appear in the Proceedings of the UC Santa Cruz Workshop on Galactic Halos (ed. D. Zaritsky)
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/9711208v1

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From: John Feldmeier [view email]
[v1] Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:55:43 GMT (88kb)