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SCIENCE
Volume 328, Issue 5976, Pages 334-336Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1186496
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- Korean government [R01-2007-000-20336-0]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- American Museum of Natural History
- Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
- University of Basel
- University of Cambridge
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Chicago
- Drexel University
- Fermilab
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Japan Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Korean Scientist Group
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- New Mexico State University
- Ohio State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- U.S. Naval Observatory
- University of Washington
- NSF
- U. S. Department of Energy
- NASA
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
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Globular clusters are usually found in galaxies, and they are excellent tracers of dark matter. Long ago it was suggested that intracluster globular clusters (IGCs) may exist that are bound to a galaxy cluster rather than to any single galaxy. Here we present a map showing the large-scale distribution of globular clusters over the entire Virgo cluster. It shows that IGCs are found out to 5 million light years from the Virgo center and that they are concentrated in several substructures that are much larger than galaxies. These objects might have been mostly stripped off from low-mass dwarf galaxies.
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