An HST/WFPC2 survey of bright young clusters in M31. IV. Ages and mass estimates (2009)
Perina, S., Cohen, J. G., Barmby, P., Beasley, M. A., Bellazzini, M., Brodie, J. P., ...
{Aims.} We present the main results of an imaging survey of possible young massive clusters (YMC) in M31 performed with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope...
An optical/near-infrared survey of GCs in early-type galaxies (2009)
Chies-Santos, A. L., Larsen, S. S., Wehner, E. M., Kuntschner, H., Strader, J., Brodie, J. P., ...
Optical/near-infrared observations for 14 globular cluster (GC) systems in early- type galaxies are presented. We investigate the recent claims (Yoon, Yi & Lee 2006) of colour bimodality in GC...
Star Cluster Candidates in M81 (2009)
Nantais, J. B., Huchra, J. P., McLeod, B., Strader, J., Brodie, J. P.
We present a catalog of extended objects in the vicinity of M81 based a set of 24 Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Wide Field Camera (WFC) F814W (I-band images. We have found...
Perina, S., Barmby, P., Beasley, M. A., Bellazzini, M., Brodie, J. P., Burstein, D., ...
Aims. We introduce our imaging survey of possible young massive globular clusters in M31 performed with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We obtained...
Perina, S., Barmby, P., Beasley, M. A., Bellazzini, M., Brodie, J. P., Burstein, D., ...
{Aims.} We introduce our imaging survey of possible young massive globular clusters in M31 performed with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We present...
Anatomy of a young massive star cluster: NGC 1569-B (2008)
Larsen, S.S., Origlia, L., Brodie, J.P., Gallagher, J.S.
We present new H-band echelle spectra, obtained with the NIRSPEC spectrograph at Keck II, for the massive star cluster 'B' in the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569. From spectral synthesis and...
Anatomy of a Young Massive Star Cluster: NGC 1569-B (2007)
Larsen, S. S., Origlia, L., Brodie, J. P., Gallagher III, J. S.
We present new H-band echelle spectra, obtained with the NIRSPEC spectrograph at Keck II, for the massive star cluster "B" in the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569. From spectral synthesis and...
Formation History of Stars and Star Clusters in Nearby Galaxies (2007)
Larsen, S. S., Mora, M. D., Brodie, J. P., Richtler, T.
We present first results from an HST/ACS imaging survey of stars and star clusters in five nearby spiral galaxies. This contribution concentrates on NGC 1313, a highly distorted late-type barred...
HST/ACS Wide-Field Photometry of the Sombrero Galaxy Globular Cluster System (2006)
Spitler, L. R., Larsen, S. S., Strader, J., Brodie, J. P., Forbes, D. A., Beasley, M. A.
A detailed imaging analysis of the globular cluster (GC) system of the Sombrero galaxy (NGC 4594) has been accomplished using a six-image mosaic from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for...
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Star Clusters in M101 (2006)
Barmby, P., Kuntz, K. D., Huchra, J. P., Brodie, J. P.
Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images are used to identify and study star cluster candidates in the nearby spiral galaxy M101. About 3000 round, slightly-resolved cluster...
Larsen, S. S., Origlia, L., Brodie, J. P., Gallagher, J. S.
Using the NIRSPEC spectrograph at Keck II, we have obtained H and K-band echelle spectra for a young (10-15 Myr), luminous (MV=-13.2) super-star cluster in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946. From...
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Strader, J.
We study the globular cluster (GC) system of the Virgo giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4365, using new wide-field VIK imaging. The GC colour distribution has (at least) two peaks, but the colours of the...
Young Massive Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies (2004)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Hunter, D. A., Richtler, T.
Young star clusters with masses well in excess of 100.000 Msun have been observed not only in merger galaxies and large-scale starbursts, but also in fairly normal, undisturbed spiral and irregular...
Dynamical Mass Estimates for Five Young Massive Stellar Clusters (2004)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Hunter, D. A.
We have obtained high-dispersion spectra for four massive star clusters in the dwarf irregular galaxies NGC 4214 and NGC 4449, using the HIRES spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. Combining the...
Burstein, D., Li, Y., Freeman, K. C., Norris, J. E., Bessell, M. S., Bland-Hawthorn, J., ...
The globular cluster (GC) systems of the Milky Way and of our neighboring spiral galaxy, M31, comprise 2 distinct entities, differing in 3 respects. 1. M31 has young GCs, ages from ~100 Myr to 5 Gyr...
Evidence for An Intermediate-Age, Metal-rich Population of Globular Clusters in NGC 4365 (2002)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Beasley, M. A., Forbes, D. A., Kissler-Patig, M., Kuntschner, H., ...
We present spectroscopy for globular clusters (GCs) in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4365, obtained with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. Previous studies have shown that the optical color...
Extragalactic Globular Clusters in the Near-Infrared (2002)
Hempel, M., Kissler-Patig, M., Hilker, M., Puzia, T. H., Brodie, J. P., Goudfrooij, P., ...
Visual and near-infrared colours are used to identify intermediate-age globular cluster in early-type galaxies. In NGC5846 and NGC4365 colour-colour diagrams (V-I vs. V-K) reveal a sub-population in...
Structural Parameters and Dynamical Masses for Globular Clusters in M33 (2002)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Sarajedini, A., Huchra, J. P.
Using high-dispersion spectra from the HIRES echelle spectrograph on the Keck I telescope, we measure velocity dispersions for 4 globular clusters in M33. Combining the velocity dispersions with...
The Kinematics and Metallicity of the M31 Globular Cluster System (2002)
Perrett, K. M., Bridges, T. J., Hanes, D. A., Irwin, M. J., Brodie, J. P., Carter, D., ...
With the ultimate aim of distinguishing between various models describing the formation of galaxy halos (e.g. radial or multi-phase collapse, random mergers), we have completed a spectroscopic study...
Keck Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in the Sombrero Galaxy (2002)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Beasley, M. A., Forbes, D. A.
We analyze high signal-to-noise spectra for 14 globular clusters (GCs) in the Sombrero galaxy, NGC 4594 = M104, obtained with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. We find generally good...
Structure and Mass of a Young Globular Cluster in NGC 6946 (2001)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Elmegreen, B. G., Efremov, Y. N., Hodge, P. W., Richtler, T.
Using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have imaged a luminous young star cluster in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946. The cluster has an absolute visual...
Properties of Globular Cluster Systems in Nearby Early-type Galaxies (2001)
Larsen, S. S., Brodie, J. P., Huchra, J. P., Forbes, D. A., Grillmair, C.
We present a study of globular clusters (GCs) in 17 relatively nearby early-type galaxies, based on deep HST/WFPC2 F555W and F814W images. We compare color distributions, cluster sizes and luminosity...
Maraston, C., Kissler-Patig, M., Brodie, J. P., Barmby, P., Huchra, J. P.
We have extended the study of the young star clusters observed in the merger remnant galaxy NGC 7252 by obtaining K band photometry for these clusters. Our K band data significantly complement the...
The M31 Globular Cluster Luminosity Function (2000)
Barmby, P., Huchra, J. P., Brodie, J. P.
We combine our compilation of photometry of M31 globular cluster and probable cluster candidates with new near-infrared photometry for 30 objects. Using these data we determine the globular cluster...
The globular cluster system of the young elliptical NGC 6702 (2000)
Georgakakis, A., Forbes, D. A., Brodie, J. P.
We study the globular cluster (GC) system of the dust-lane elliptical galaxy NGC 6702, using B, V and I-band photometric observations carried out at the Keck telescope. This galaxy has a...
M31 Globular Clusters: Colors and Metallicities (1999)
Barmby, P., Huchra, J. P., Brodie, J. P., Forbes, D. A., Schroder, L. L., Grillmair, C. J.
We present a new catalog of photometric and spectroscopic data on M31 globular clusters. The catalog includes new optical and near-infrared photometry for a substantial fraction of the 435 clusters...
Integrated spectrophotometric properties of globular clusters. (1981)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1981.