A single population of red globular clusters around the massive compact galaxy NGC 1277

Michael A. Beasley (), Ignacio Trujillo, Ryan Leaman and Mireia Montes
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Michael A. Beasley: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Calle Vía Láctea
Ignacio Trujillo: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Calle Vía Láctea
Ryan Leaman: Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie
Mireia Montes: Yale University

Nature, 2018, vol. 555, issue 7697, 483-486

Abstract: The massive relic galaxy NGC 1277 has few blue globular clusters, indicating that it has undergone little mass accretion and is a candidate ‘red nugget’ in the nearby Universe.

Date: 2018
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