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Newly Discovered Globular Clusters in the Outer Halo of M31

2003/12/11 by A. Huxor, Huxor, A., N. R. Tanvir +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0312304

4 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the conference "Satellites and Tidal tails" held at La Palma, Canary Islands, May 26-30, 2003, eds. F. Prada, D. Martinez-Delgado, T. Mahoney

arxiv created 2003/12/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We present nine newly discovered globular clusters in the outer halo of M31, found by a semi-automated procedure from a INT Wide Field Camera survey of the region. The sample includes a candidate at the yet largest known projected galactocentric radius from M31.

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