Bibcode
Beasley, M. A.; Trujillo, I.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 830, Issue 1, article id. 23, 6 pp. (2016).
Fecha de publicación:
10
2016
Revista
Número de citas
114
Número de citas referidas
108
Descripción
We present an analysis of archival HST/ACS imaging in the F475W (g
475), F606W (V 606), and F814W (I 814)
bands of the globular cluster (GC) system of a large (3.4 kpc effective
radius) ultra-diffuse galaxy (DF17) believed to be located in the Coma
Cluster of galaxies. We detect 11 GCs down to the 5σ completeness
limit of the imaging (I 814 = 27 mag). Correcting for
background and our detection limits yields a total population of GCs in
this galaxy of 27 ± 5 and a V-band specific frequency S N
= 28 ± 5. Based on comparisons to the GC systems of local
galaxies, we show that both the absolute number and the colors of the GC
system of DF17 are consistent with the GC system of a
dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy with virial mass ∼9.0 ×
1010 M ⊙ and a dark-to-stellar mass ratio M
vir/M star ∼ 1000. Based on the stellar mass
growth of the Milky Way, we show that DF17 cannot be understood as a
failed Milky-Way-like system, but is more similar to quenched
Large-Magellanic-Cloud-like systems. We find that the mean color of the
GC population, g 475–I 814 = 0.91 ±
0.05 mag, coincides with the peak of the color distribution of
intracluster GCs and is also similar to those of the blue GCs in the
outer regions of massive galaxies. We suggest that both the intracluster
GC population in Coma and the blue peak in the GC populations of massive
galaxies may be fed—at least in part—by the disrupted
equivalents of systems such as DF17.