The SLUGGS Survey: kinematics for over 2500 globular clusters in 12 early-type galaxies

Pota, Vincenzo; Forbes, Duncan A.; Romanowsky, Aaron J.; Brodie, Jean P.; Spitler, Lee R.; Strader, Jay; Foster, Caroline; Arnold, Jacob A.; Benson, Andrew; Blom, Christina; Hargis, Jonathan R.; Rhode, Katherine L.; Usher, Christopher
2013
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
DOI
10.1093/mnras/sts029
We present a spectrophotometric survey of 2522 extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) around 12 early-type galaxies, nine of which have not been published previously. Combining space-based and multicolour wide-field ground-based imaging, with spectra from the Keck/DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) instrument, we obtain an average of 160 GC radial velocities per galaxy, with a high-velocity precision of similar to 15 km s(-1) per GC. After studying the photometric properties of the GC systems, such as their spatial and colour distributions, we focus on the kinematics of metal-poor (blue) and metal-rich (red) GC subpopulations to an average distance of similar to 8 effective radii from the galaxy centre.