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室女星系团内球状星团的大尺度结构探测

Detection of a Large Scale Structure of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster

Myung Gyoon Lee, Hong Soo Park, Ho Seong Hwang

摘要:

球状星团通常存在于星系中,它们是暗物质的极好示踪剂。很久以前就有人提出,可能存在着与一个星系团而不是与任何一个星系结合的团内球状星团(IGCs)。在这里,我们提出了一个地图显示的大规模分布的球状星团在整个室女星系团。它表明IGC被发现在距离室女座中心500万光年的地方,并且它们集中在几个比星系大得多的子结构中。这些物体可能大部分是从低质量矮星系中剥离出来的。

英文摘要:

Globular clusters are found usually in galaxies and they are an excellent tracer of dark matter. Long ago it was suggested that there may exist intracluster globular clusters (IGCs) bound to a galaxy cluster rather than to any single galaxy. Here we present a map showing the large scale distribution of globular clusters over the entire Virgo cluster. It shows that IGCs are found out to 5 million light years from the Virgo center, and that they are concentrated in several substructures much larger than galaxies. These objects might have been mostly stripped off from low-mass dwarf galaxies.

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