Browsing by Author "Powalka, Mathieu"

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    New constraints on a complex relation between globular cluster colors and environment
    (2016) Powalka, Mathieu; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lançon, Ariane; Peng, Eric W.; Schönebeck, Frederik; Alamo Martínez, Karla; Ángel Ángel, Simón Andrés; 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
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    THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). XXV. FIDUCIAL PANCHROMATIC COLORS OF VIRGO CORE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS AND THEIR COMPARISON TO MODEL PREDICTIONS
    (2016) Powalka, Mathieu; Lançon, Ariane; Puzia, Thomas H.; Peng, Eric W.; Chengze, Liu; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Hongxin, Zhang
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    The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVI. The Issues of Photometric Age and Metallicity Estimates for Globular Clusters
    (2017) Powalka, Mathieu; Lançon, Ariane; Puzia, Thomas H.; Peng, Eric W.; Liu, Chengze; Muñoz, Roberto P.; Blakeslee, John P.; Côté, Patrick; Ferrarese, Laura; Zhang, Hongxin
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    The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXI. The Kinematics of Intracluster Globular Clusters in the Core of the Virgo Cluster
    (2018) Longobardi, Alessia; Peng, Eric W.; Cote, Patrick; Mihos, J. Christopher; Ferrarese, Laura; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lancon, Ariane; Zhang, Hong-Xin; Munoz, Roberto P.; Blakeslee, John P.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Durrell, Patrick R.; Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben; Toloba, Elisa; Jordán Colzani, Andrés Cristóbal; Eyheramendy Duerr, Susana; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Boselli, Alessandro; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Liu, Chengze; Alamo-Martinez, Karla; Powalka, Mathieu; Lim, Sungsoon
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    The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXII. A Search for Globular Cluster Substructures in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster Core
    (2018) Powalka, Mathieu; Puzia, Thomas H.; Lancon, Ariane; Longobardi, Alessia; Peng, Eric W.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Alamo-Martinez, Karla; Blakeslee, John P.; Cote, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Durrell, Patrick; Eigenthaler, Paul; Ferrarese, Laura; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Hudelot, Patrick; Liu, Chengze; Mei, Simona; Munoz, Roberto P.; Roediger, Joel; Sanchez-Janssen, Ruben; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
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    THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XXII. SHELL FEATURE EARLY-TYPE DWARF GALAXIES IN THE VIRGO CLUSTER
    (IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2017) Paudel, Sanjaya; Smith, Rory; Duc, Pierre Alain; Cote, 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; Sanchez Janssen, Ruben; Toloba, Elisa; Zhang, Hongxin
    The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a deep (with a 2 sigma detection limit mu g = 29 mag arcsec(-2) in the g-band) optical panchromatic survey targeting the Virgo cluster from its core to virial radius, for a total areal coverage of 104 square degrees. As such, the survey is well suited for the study of galaxies' outskirts, haloes, and low surface brightness features that arise from dynamical interactions within the cluster environment. We report the discovery of extremely faint (mu g > 25 mag arcsec(-2)) shells in three Virgo cluster early-type dwarf galaxies: VCC. 1361, VCC. 1447, and VCC. 1668. Among them, VCC. 1447 has an absolute magnitude Mg = -11.71 mag and is the least massive galaxy with a shell system discovered to date. We present a detailed study of these low surface brightness features. We detect between three and four shells in each of our galaxies. Within the uncertainties, we find no evidence of a color difference between the galaxy main body and shell features. The observed arcs of the shells are located up to several effective radii of the galaxies. We further explore the origin of these low surface brightness features with the help of idealized numerical simulations. We find that a near equal mass merger is best able to reproduce the main properties of the shells, including their quite symmetric appearance and their alignment along the major axis of the galaxy. The simulations provide support for a formation scenario in which a recent merger, between two near-equal mass, gas-free dwarf galaxies, forms the observed shell systems.