Detection and Analysis of Globular Clusters in the Coma Cluster Using HST/ACS Data


Martes, 17 Febrero 2015 2:30 p.m. — 3 p.m. MST

AURA Lecture Hall

NOIRLab South Colloquia
CONOR O'NEILL (Gemini South AGUSS Student)

I will discuss my summer project undertaken at Gemini South with Juan Madrid. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, we detected globular cluster candidates using an automated process and narrowed them down by their photometric properties and visual inspection. The colour-magnitude diagrams, globular cluster luminosity functions, and radial distributions were created, and the specific frequencies calculated. I will discuss these results.