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Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 3(475), p. 4235-4251

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty116

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The globular cluster systems of 54 Coma ultra-diffuse galaxies: statistical constraints from HST data

Journal article published in 2016 by N. C. Amorisco, A. Monachesi ORCID, A. Agnello, S. D. M. White ORCID
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Abstract

We use data from the HST Coma Cluster Treasury program to assess the richness of the Globular Cluster Systems (GCSs) of 54 Coma ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs), and hence to constrain the virial masses of their haloes. For 18 of these the half-light radius exceeds 1.5 kpc. We use a maximum-likelihood method to take account of the high contamination levels. UDG GCSs are poor: for 14 of the largest 18, $N_{GC}