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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 405, 期 2, 页码 487-497出版社
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030598
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galaxies : star clusters; galaxies : individual : NGC 5846, NGC 7192
In this third paper of our series on near-IR and optical photometry of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies we concentrate on the photometric results for NGC 5846 and NGC 7192, two group ellipticals, and on a first comparison between the globular cluster systems investigated so far. In NGC 5846 the colour-colour diagram shows clear bi-modality in (V - K), which is confirmed by a KMM test. The mean colour of both peaks were estimated to be (V - K)(blue) = 2.57 +/- 0.06 and (V - K)(red) = 3.18 +/- 0.06. The situation in NGC 7192 is different, in that the colour-colour diagram gives no evidence for a distinct second population of globular clusters. Using simulated colour distributions of globular cluster systems, we make a first step in quantifying the cumulative age distribution in globular cluster systems. Also here the result for NGC 5846 leads us to the conclusion that its metal-rich globular cluster population contains two globular cluster populations which differ in age by several Gyr. The age structure for NGC 7192 shows instead strong similarity with a single-age population.
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