Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2016
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Using 3.6 and 4.5 μm images of 73 late-type, edge-on galaxies from the S4 G survey, we compare the richness of the globular cluster populations of these galaxies to those of early-type galaxies that we measured previously. In general, the galaxies presented here fill in the distribution for galaxies with lower stellar mass, M*, specifically log 10 ( ) M M * < , overlap the results for early-type galaxies of similar masses, and, by doing so, strengthen the case for a dependence of the number of globular clusters per 109 Me of galaxy stellar mass, TN, on M*. For 8.5 log 10.5 ( ) M M * < < we find the relationship can be satisfactorily described as T M N 106.7 0.56 ( ) * = - when M* is expressed in solar masses. The functional form of the relationship is only weakly constrained, and extrapolation outside this range is not advised. Our late-type galaxies, in contrast to our early types, do not show the tendency for low-mass galaxies to split into two TN families. Using these results and a galaxy stellar mass function from the literature, we calculate that, in a volume-limited, local universe sample, clusters are most likely to be found around fairly massive galaxies (M* ∼ 1010.8Me) and present a fitting function for the volume number density of clusters as a function of parent-galaxy stellar mass. We find no correlation between TN and large-scale environment, but we do find a tendency for galaxies of fixed M* to have larger TN if they have converted a larger proportion of their baryons into stars.
Original Publication Information
Zaritsky, Dennis, et al. "Globular Cluster Populations: Results Including S4G Late-Type Galaxies." 2016. The Astrophysical Journal 818(1): 11 pp.
ThinkIR Citation
Zaritsky, Dennis; McCabe, Kelsey; Aravena, Manuel; Athanassoula, E.; Bosma, Albert; Comeron, Sebastien; Courtois, Helene M.; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Elmegreen, Debra M.; Erroz-Ferrer, Santiago; Gadotti, Dimitri A.; Hinz, Joannah L.; Ho, Luis C.; Holwerda, Benne W.; Kim, Taehyun; Knapen, Johan H.; Laine, Jarkko; Laurikainen, Eija; Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos; Salo, Heikki; and Sheth, Kartik, "Globular cluster populations : results including S4G late-type galaxies." (2016). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 174.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/174
DOI
10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/99
Comments
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https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/99