- Spectroscopic Property of the Globular Clusters in Giant Elliptical Galaxy M86
- ㆍ 저자명
- 박홍수,이명균,Park. Hong-Soo,Lee. Myung-Gyoon
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 천문학회보
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2012년|37권 1호|pp.57-57 (1 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국천문학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
We present a spectroscopic study of the globular clusters (GCs) in the giant elliptical galaxy (gE) M86 in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Using the spectra obtained from the Multi-Object Spectroscopy (MOS) mode of Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) on the Subaru Telescope, we measured the radial velocities of 25 GCs, the metallicities of 16 GCs, and the ages of 8 GCs in M86. The mean velocity and the vocity dispersion of the GCs are < ${upsilon}_p$ > = -354 ${pm}$ 80 km/s and ${sigma}_p$ = 292 ${pm}$ 32km/s, respectively. The M86 GC system shows some rotation with a large uncertainty and the velocity dispersion of the blue GC system is 60 km/s larger than that of the red GC system. The mean metallicity and age of M86 GCs are <[Fe/H]> = -1.13 ${pm}$ 0.47 and <t> = 9.7 ${pm}$ 4.0 Gyr, respectively. We found one GC younger than 5 Gyr. We discuss the spectroscopic results of the M86 GC system in comparison with the GC systems in other gEs.