New Velocity Measurements of NGC 5128 Globular Clusters Out to 130 kpc: Outer Halo Kinematics, Substructure, and Dynamics

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Hughes, Allison K. [1 ]
Sand, David J. [1 ]
Seth, Anil [2 ]
Strader, Jay [3 ]
Lidman, Chris [4 ,5 ]
Voggel, Karina [6 ]
Dumont, Antoine [2 ]
Crnojevic, Denija [7 ]
Mateo, Mario [8 ]
Caldwell, Nelson [9 ]
Forbes, Duncan A. [10 ]
Pearson, Sarah [11 ]
Guhathakurta, Puragra [12 ]
Toloba, Elisa [13 ]
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[1] Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, 933 North Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[2] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[3] Michigan State Univ, Ctr Data Intens & Time Domain Astron, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[4] Australian Natl Univ, Coll Sci, Ctr Gravitat Astrophys, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
[5] Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Astron & Astrophys, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
[6] Univ Strasbourg, CNRS, Observ Astron Strasbourg, UMR 7550, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
[7] Univ Tampa, 401 West Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33606 USA
[8] Univ Michigan, Dept Astron, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[9] Harvard & Smithsonian, Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[10] Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Astrophys & Supercomp, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia
[11] NYU, Ctr Cosmol & Particle Phys, Dept Phys, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 USA
[12] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, UCO, Lick Observ, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[13] Univ Pacific, Dept Phys, 3601 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA 95211 USA
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2023年 / 947卷 / 01期
关键词
VLT SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY; PLANETARY-NEBULA SYSTEM; COMPACT STELLAR-SYSTEMS; NEARBY DWARF GALAXIES; RAY POINT SOURCES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; STAR-CLUSTERS; DARK-MATTER; LARGE-SAMPLE; WASHINGTON PHOTOMETRY;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/acbf43
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We present new radial velocity measurements from the Magellan and the Anglo-Australian Telescopes for 175 previously known and 121 newly confirmed globular clusters (GCs) around NGC 5128, the nearest accessible massive early-type galaxy at D = 3.8 Mpc. Remarkably, 28 of these newly confirmed GCs are at projected radii >50' (greater than or similar to 54 kpc), extending to similar to 130 kpc, in the outer halo where few GCs had been confirmed in previous work. We identify several subsets of GCs that spatially trace halo substructures that are visible in red giant branch star maps of the galaxy. In some cases, these subsets of GCs are kinematically cold, and may be directly associated with and originate from these specific stellar substructures. From a combined kinematic sample of 645 GCs, we see evidence for coherent rotation at all radii, with a higher rotation amplitude for the metal-rich GC subpopulation. Using the tracer mass estimator, we measure a total enclosed mass of 2.5 +/- 0.3 x 10(12) M-circle dot within similar to 120 kpc, an estimate that will be sharpened with forthcoming dynamical modeling. The combined power of stellar mapping and GC kinematics makes NGC 5128 an ongoing keystone for understanding galaxy assembly at mass scales inaccessible in the Local Group.
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