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16 April 2024

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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey - Infrared (NGVS-IR): I. A new Near-UV/Optical/Near-IR Globular Cluster selection tool
Roberto P. Muñoz ; Thomas H. Puzia ; Ariane Lançon ; Eric W. Peng ; Patrick Côté ; Laura Ferrarese ; John P. Blakeslee ; Simona Mei ; Jean-Charles Cuillandre ; Patrick Hudelot ; Stéphane Courteau ; Pierre-Alain Duc ; Michael L. Balogh ; Alessandro Boselli ; Frédéric Bournaud ; Raymond G. Carlberg ; Scott C. Chapman ; Patrick Durrell ; Paul Eigenthaler ; Eric Emsellem ; Giuseppe Gavazzi ; Stephen Gwyn ; Marc Huertas-Company ; Olivier Ilbert ; Andrés Jordán ; Ronald Läsker ; Rossella Licitra ; Chengze Liu ; Lauren MacArthur ; Alan McConnachie ; Henry Joy McCracken ; Yannick Mellier ; Chien Y. Peng ; Anand Raichoor ; Matthew A. Taylor ; John L. Tonry ; R. Brent Tully ; Hongxin Zhang ;
Date:	4 Nov 2013
Abstract:	The NGVS-IR project (Next Generation Virgo Survey - Infrared) is a contiguous near-infrared imaging survey of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. It complements the optical wide-field survey of Virgo (NGVS). The current state of NGVS-IR consists of Ks-band imaging of 4 deg^2 centered on M87, and J and Ks-band imaging of 16 deg^2 covering the region between M49 and M87. In this paper, we present the observations of the central 4 deg^2 centered on Virgo’s core region. The data were acquired with WIRCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the total integration time was 41 hours distributed in 34 contiguous tiles. A survey-specific strategy was designed to account for extended galaxies while still measuring accurate sky brightness within the survey area. The average 5sigma limiting magnitude is Ks=24.4 AB mag and the 50% completeness limit is Ks=23.75 AB mag for point source detections, when using only images with better than 0.7" seeing (median seeing 0.54"). Star clusters are marginally resolved in these image stacks, and Virgo galaxies with mu_Ks=24.4 AB mag arcsec^-2 are detected. Combining the Ks data with optical and ultraviolet data, we build the uiK color-color diagram which allows a very clean color-based selection of globular clusters in Virgo. This diagnostic plot will provide reliable globular cluster candidates for spectroscopic follow-up campaigns needed to continue the exploration of Virgo’s photometric and kinematic sub-structures, and will help the design of future searches for globular clusters in extragalactic systems. Equipped with this powerful new tool, future NGVS-IR investigations based on the uiK diagram will address the mapping and analysis of extended structures and compact stellar systems in and around Virgo galaxies.
Source:	arXiv, 1311.0873
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