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Name 9401
Title The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey
URL https://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst/#/pages/search;proposal=9401;TAPCLIENT=DOI
DOI https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-zx54nng
Author Cote, Patrick
Description This is a scientific proposal for HST mission. For specific information please visit https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?id=9401&mission=hst
Publication
  • About the Linearity of the Color-Magnitude Relation of Early-type Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
  • A bright off-nuclear X-ray source: a type IIn supernova, a bright ULX or a recoiling supermassive black hole in CXOJ122518.6+144545
  • A catalogue of nuclear stellar velocity dispersions of nearby galaxies from Ha STIS spectra to constrain supermassive black hole masses
  • A census of nuclear stellar discs in early-type galaxies
  • A Comparison of Surface Brightness Profiles for Ultracompact Dwarfs and Dwarf Elliptical Nuclei: Implications for the ``Threshing Scenario
  • A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies
  • Age and metallicity gradients support hierarchical formation for M87
  • A Gemini/GMOS Study of Intermediate Luminosity Early-type Virgo Cluster Galaxies. I. Globular Cluster and Stellar Kinematics
  • AGN Activity in Nucleated Galaxies as Measured by Chandra
  • A Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Novae in M87. I. Light and Color Curves, Spatial Distributions, and the Nova Rate
  • AINUR: Atlas of Images of NUclear Rings
  • AMUSE-Virgo. II. Down-sizing in Black Hole Accretion
  • AMUSE-Virgo. III. Mid-infrared Photometry of Early-type Galaxies and Limits on Obscured Nuclear Emission
  • AMUSE-Virgo. I. Supermassive Black Holes in Low-Mass Spheroids
  • An Assessment of the Energy Budgets of Low-Ionization Nuclear Emission Regions
  • An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters
  • An optical/NIR survey of globular clusters in early-type galaxies. II. Ages of globular cluster systems and the relation to galaxy morphology
  • An optical/NIR survey of globular clusters in early-type galaxies. III. On the colour bimodality of globular cluster systems
  • An optical/NIR survey of globular clusters in early-type galaxies. I. Introduction and data reduction procedures
  • An unusually brilliant transient in the galaxy M85
  • A Possible Explanation for the Size Difference of Red and Blue Globular Clusters
  • A quantitative link between globular clusters and the stellar haloes in elliptical galaxies
  • A quartet of black holes and a missing duo: probing the low end of the MBH-s relation with the adaptive optics assisted integral-field spectroscopy
  • A Reservoir of Ionized Gas in the Galactic Halo to Sustain Star Formation in the Milky Way
  • A Revised Parallel-sequence Morphological Classification of Galaxies: Structure and Formation of S0 and Spheroidal Galaxies
  • Arp 116: interacting system or chance alignment?
  • A single population of red globular clusters around the massive compact galaxy NGC 1277
  • A supragalactic conundrum: the globular clusters colour pattern in Virgo galaxies
  • A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XII. Ionised gas emission in the inner regions of lenticular galaxies
  • A Wide-field Photometric Survey of Globular Clusters in the Peculiar Early-type Galaxy M85
  • Beyond the rings: Polar ring galaxy NGC 4262 and its globular cluster system
  • Bimodal Galaxies and Bimodality in Globular Cluster Systems
  • Black Hole Mass Limits for Optically Dark X-ray Bright Sources in Elliptical Galaxies
  • Central Stellar Mass Deficits in the Bulges of Local Lenticular Galaxies, and the Connection with Compact z ~ 1.5 Galaxies
  • Chandra Detection of Intracluster X-Ray sources in Virgo
  • Circumnuclear Dust in Luminous Early-type Galaxies. I. Sample Properties and Stellar Luminosity Models
  • Circumstellar Medium Constraints on the Environment of Two Nearby Type Ia Supernovae: SN 2017cbv and SN 2020nlb
  • Clearing the Hurdle: The Mass of Globular Cluster Systems as a Function of Host Galaxy Mass
  • Complex central structures suggest complex evolutionary paths for barred S0 galaxies
  • Composite bulges: the coexistence of classical bulges and discy pseudo-bulges in S0 and spiral galaxies
  • Core Shapes and Orientations of Core-Sersic Galaxies
  • Correlations between Supermassive Black Holes, Velocity Dispersions, and Mass Deficits in Elliptical Galaxies with Cores
  • Counting the Unseen. I. Nuclear Density Scaling Relations for Nucleated Galaxies
  • Damp Mergers: Recent Gaseous Mergers without Significant Globular Cluster Formation?
  • Deep Chandra Monitoring Observations of NGC 4649. I. Catalog of Source Properties
  • Deep Chandra Monitoring Observations of NGC 4649. II. Wide-field Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Globular Clusters
  • Deep Chandra Observations of X-Ray Point Sources in M87
  • Depleted cores, multicomponent fits, and structural parameter relations for luminous early-type galaxies
  • Detecting metal-rich intermediate-age globular clusters in NGC4570 using K-band photometry
  • Detection of an Optical/UV Jet/Counterjet and Multiple Spectral Components in M84
  • Detection of Enhanced Central Mass-to-light Ratios in Low-mass Early-type Galaxies: Evidence for Black Holes?
  • Detection of Supermassive Black Holes in Two Virgo Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies
  • Differences between the globular cluster systems of the Virgo and Fornax galaxy clusters
  • Discovery of a second outbursting hyperluminous X-ray source
  • Disentangling the formation mechanisms of nuclear star clusters
  • Dominant Nuclear Outflow Driving Mechanisms in Powerful Radio Galaxies
  • Dual Halos and Formation of Early-type Galaxies
  • Dynamical friction of star clusters against disc field stars in galaxies: implications on stellar nucleus formation and globular cluster luminosity functions
  • Early-type galaxies at large galactocentric radii - I. Stellar kinematics and photometric properties
  • Effects of a-Element Enhancement and the Thermally Pulsing-Asymptotic Giant Branch on Surface Brightness Fluctuation Magnitudes and Broadband Colors
  • ELVES II: Globular Clusters and Nuclear Star Clusters of Dwarf Galaxies: the Importance of Environment
  • ESASky SSOSS: Solar System Object Search Service and the case of Psyche
  • Evidence for a Constant Initial Mass Function in Early-type Galaxies Based on Their X-Ray Binary Populations
  • Evidence for the Disky Origin of Luminous Virgo Dwarf Ellipticals from the Kinematics of Their Globular Cluster Systems
  • Evidence for the Rapid Formation of Low-mass Early-type Galaxies in Dense Environments
  • Expected intermediate-mass black holes in the Virgo cluster - I. Early-type galaxies
  • Explaining the Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Elliptical Galaxies
  • Faint stellar systems in the Virgo Cluster: The connection between dwarf galaxies and globular clusters
  • Families of dynamically hot stellar systems over 10 orders of magnitude in mass
  • Filling the gap: a new class of old star cluster.
  • Galaxy structure from multiple tracers - III. Radial variations in M87s IMF
  • Gemini/GMOS spectra of globular clusters in the Virgo giant elliptical NGC 4649
  • Globular clusters: DNA of early-type galaxies?
  • Globular clusters in NGC 4365: new K-band imaging and a reassessment of the case for intermediate-age clusters
  • Globular Clusters in Virgo Ellipticals: Unexpected Results for Giants and Dwarfs from Advanced Camera for Surveys Imaging
  • Globular cluster systems as tracers of environmental effects on Virgo early-type dwarfs
  • Globular cluster systems in fossil groups: NGC 6482, NGC 1132, and ESO 306-017
  • Golden Gravitational Lensing Systems from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey. I. SDSS J1538+5817: One Lens for Two Sources
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Record-breaking Compact Stellar Systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • How ^ated is the dynamical-to-stellar mass ratio of the ultracompact dwarf S999?
  • Intermediate-age Globular Clusters in Four Galaxy Merger Remnants
  • Kinematics and stellar population of NGC 4486A
  • Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653
  • Long-Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries. III. Binary Evolution in Collisional Nuclei
  • Low-mass X-Ray Binaries Indicate a Top-heavy Stellar Initial Mass Function in Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies
  • Low-mass X-ray binary populations in galaxy outskirts: Globular clusters and supernova kicks
  • Masses and scaling relations for nuclear star clusters, and their co-existence with central black holes
  • Mass modelling with minimum kinematic information
  • Measuring Star Formation Histories, Distances, and Metallicities with Pixel Color-Magnitude Diagrams. II. Applications to Nearby Elliptical Galaxies
  • Metallicity Effect on Low-mass X-Ray Binary Formation in Globular Clusters
  • Mid-IR Enhanced Galaxies in the Coma & Virgo Clusters: Lenticulars with a High Star Formation Rate
  • Mid- to Far-Infrared Emission and Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies
  • Modelling dust rings in early-type galaxies through a sequence of radiative transfer simulations and 2D image fitting
  • Multiband photometric decomposition of nuclear stellar disks
  • MUSE tells the story of NGC 4371: The dawning of secular evolution
  • New Constraints on Early-type Galaxy Assembly from Spectroscopic Metallicities of Globular Clusters in M87
  • NGC 4262: a Virgo galaxy with an extended ultraviolet ring
  • Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. II. A Test on the Nonlinearity Scenario for Color Bimodality Using the u-band Colors: The Case of M87 (NGC 4486)
  • Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. III. On the Discrepancy in Metallicity between Globular Cluster Systems and Their Parent Elliptical Galaxies
  • Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. IV. Testing the Nonlinearity Scenario for Color Bimodality via HST/WFC3 u-band Photometry of M84 (NGC 4374)
  • Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. IX. Different Radial Number Density Profiles between Blue and Red Clusters
  • Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. VIII. Reproducing Color Distributions of Individual Globular Cluster Systems in the Virgo and Fornax Galaxy Clusters
  • Non-parametric deprojection of surface brightness profiles of galaxies in generalised geometries
  • Nuclear star cluster formation in energy-space
  • Nuclear star clusters and the stellar spheroids of their host galaxies
  • Observational Biases Masquerading as Cosmological Effects? a Cautionary tale about Blue Tilts and Other Trends in Globular Cluster Systems
  • Old Globular Clusters Masquerading as Young in NGC 4365?
  • On the relation between the mass of Compact Massive Objects and their host galaxies
  • Photometric and structural parameters of newly discovered nuclear star clusters in Local Volume galaxies
  • Probing the Central Regions of Nearby Compact Elliptical Galaxies
  • PTF 10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Galaxy Messier 99
  • Repainting the colour-mass diagrams by unearthing the green mountain: dust-rich S0 galaxies in the colour-(galaxy stellar mass) diagram, and the colour-(black hole mass) relations for dust-poor versus dust-rich galaxies
  • Scaling Relations for Early-Type (Red-Sequence) Galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Clusters
  • Scaling relations for globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies
  • Scaling relations for globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies - II. Is there an environmental dependence?
  • Scaling relations for globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies - III. The inner flattening of the radial distributions
  • SDSSJ124155.33+114003.7 - a missing link between compact elliptical and ultracompact dwarf galaxies
  • Spatial Structures in the Globular Cluster Distribution of the 10 Brightest Virgo Galaxies
  • Strong lensing signatures of luminous structure and substructure in early-type galaxies
  • Structural Properties of Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax and Virgo Clusters
  • Structure and Formation of Elliptical and Spheroidal Galaxies
  • Structures of Dwarf Satellites of Milky Way-like Galaxies: Morphology, Scaling Relations, and Intrinsic Shapes
  • Studies of extragalactic globular clusters
  • Study of central intensity ratio of early-type galaxies from low-density environment
  • Supermassive black hole mass in the massive elliptical galaxy M87 from integral-field stellar dynamics using OASIS and MUSE with adaptive optics: assessing systematic uncertainties
  • Supermassive black holes in a mass-limited galaxy sample
  • Supra-galactic colour patterns in globular cluster systems
  • Testing Stellar Population Synthesis Models with Sloan Digital Sky Survey Colors of M31s Globular Clusters
  • Testing the tidal stripping scenario of ultracompact dwarf galaxy formation by using internal properties
  • Testing the Universality of the Stellar IMF with Chandra and HST
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. II. The Central Brightness Profiles of Early-Type Galaxies: A Characteristic Radius on Nuclear Scales and the Transition from Central Luminosity Deficit to Excess
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. IV. Deprojection of the Surface Brightness Profiles of Early-type Galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Clusters: Investigating the Core/Power-law Dichotomy
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. IX. The Color-Magnitude Relation of Globular Cluster Systems
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. VIII. The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters in Virgo and Fornax Early-type Galaxies and Its Use as a Distance Indicator
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. VI. The Nuclei of Early-type Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. V. Measurement and Recalibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuations and a Precise Value of the Fornax-Virgo Relative Distance
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. X. Color Gradients of Globular Cluster Systems in Early-type Galaxies
  • The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XI. Catalog of Globular Cluster Candidates
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. II. Data Reduction Procedures
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. III. Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in M87
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. Data Reduction Procedures for Surface Brightness Fluctuation Measurements with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IX. The Color Distributions of Globular Cluster Systems in Early-Type Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VIII. The Nuclei of Early-Type Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VII. Resolving the Connection between Globular Clusters and Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. Isophotal Analysis and the Structure of Early-Type Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Half-Light Radii of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies: Environmental Dependencies and a Standard Ruler for Distance Estimation
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. SBF Distance Catalog and the Three-dimensional Structure of the Virgo Cluster
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XII. The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XI. The Nature of Diffuse Star Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIV. Analysis of Color-Magnitude Relations in Globular Cluster Systems
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XVII. The Spatial Alignment of Globular Cluster Systems with Early-type Host Galaxies
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey XVI. Selection Procedure and Catalogs of Globular Cluster Candidates
  • The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. The Formation Efficiencies of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies: The Effects of Mass and Environment
  • The Advanced Camera for Surveys Fornax Cluster Survey. VII. Half-light Radii of Globular Clusters in Early-type Galaxies
  • The Advanced Camera for Surveys Virgo Cluster Survey. V. Surface Brightness Fluctuation Calibration for Giant and Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies
  • The Ages of Globular Clusters in NGC 4365 Revisited with Deep HST Observations
  • The central parsecs of M87: jet emission and an elusive accretion disc
  • The Central Regions of Early-Type Galaxies
  • The Coincidence of Nuclear Star Clusters and Active Galactic Nuclei
  • The complex globular cluster system of the S0 galaxy NGC 4382 in the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster
  • The Densest Galaxy
  • The Environment of M85 Optical Transient 2006-1: Constraints on the Progenitor Age and Mass
  • The Evolutionary History of Galactic Bulges: Photometric and Spectroscopic Studies of Distant Spheroids in the GOODS Fields
  • The first gigayear of bulge star formation in Virgo ellipticals: constraints from their globular cluster systems
  • The formation of stellar nuclear discs in bar-induced gas inflows
  • The globular cluster kinematics and galaxy dark matter content of NGC 4649 (M60)
  • The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function and Specific Frequency in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
  • The Globular Cluster Populations of Giant Galaxies: Mosaic Imaging of Five Moderate-luminosity Early-type Galaxies
  • The globular clusters-stellar haloes connection in early-type galaxies
  • The Globular Cluster System of the Virgo Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy VCC 1087
  • The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations
  • The innermost globular clusters of M87
  • The Low-Mass X-Ray Binary and Globular Cluster Connection in Virgo Cluster Early-Type Galaxies: Optical Properties
  • The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters Used As a Distance Indicator
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the Survey
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XIV. The Discovery of Low-mass Galaxies and a New Galaxy Catalog in the Core of the Virgo Cluster
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVII. The Size and Structure of Globular Cluster Systems and Their Connection to Dark Matter Halos
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXX. Ultra-diffuse Galaxies and Their Globular Cluster Systems
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey XVI: The Angular Momentum of Dwarf Early-type Galaxies from Globular Cluster Satellites
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXIII. Fundamentals of Nuclear Star Clusters over Seven Decades in Galaxy Mass
  • The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIV. Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
  • The Nuclear Disk in the Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4486A
  • The nucleation fraction of local volume galaxies
  • The Optical Colors of Giant Elliptical Galaxies and their Metal-Rich Globular Clusters Indicate a Bottom-Heavy Initial Mass Function
  • The Production Rate of SN Ia Events in Globular Clusters
  • The Properties of the Stellar Nuclei with the Host Galaxy Morphology in the ACSVCS
  • The Relationships among Compact Stellar Systems: A Fresh View of Ultracompact Dwarfs
  • The SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey (SLUGGS): Sample Definition, Methods, and Initial Results
  • The SAURON Project - XIV. No escape from Vesc: a global and local parameter in early-type galaxy evolution
  • The SLUGGS survey: calcium triplet-based spectroscopic metallicities for over 900 globular clusters
  • The SLUGGS survey: globular cluster kinematics in a `double sigma galaxy - NGC 4473
  • The SLUGGS survey: globular cluster system kinematics and substructure in NGC 4365
  • The SLUGGS Survey: kinematics for over 2500 globular clusters in 12 early-type galaxies
  • The Spectroscopy and H-band Imaging of Virgo Cluster Galaxies (SHIVir) Survey: Scaling Relations and the Stellar-to-total Mass Relation
  • The Structure of Classical Bulges and Pseudobulges: the Link Between Pseudobulges and SERSIC Index
  • The Supermassive Black Hole and Dark Matter Halo of NGC 4649 (M60)
  • The supermassive black hole in NGC4486a detected with SINFONI at the Very Large Telescope
  • The Two-dimensional Spatial Distributions of the Globular Clusters and Low-mass X-Ray Binaries of NGC 4649
  • The X-Ray Luminosity Function of Low-mass X-Ray Binaries in Early-type Galaxies, Their Metal-rich, and Metal-poor Globular Clusters
  • Tidal Stripping of Globular Clusters
  • Tidal Stripping of Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster
  • Trends in the Globular Cluster Luminosity Function of Early-Type Galaxies
  • Type Ia supernovae in globular clusters: observational upper limits
  • Virgo Redux: The Masses and Stellar Content of Nuclei in Early-type Galaxies from Multiband Photometry and Spectroscopy
  • Virial models and anisotropy of velocity dispersion in E-galaxies
  • VLT optical BVR observations of two bright supernova Ia hosts in the Virgo cluster. Surface brightness fluctuation analysis
  • Wide-field imaging of NGC 4365s globular cluster system: the third subpopulation revisited
  • Wide-field Precision Kinematics of the M87 Globular Cluster System
  • X-Ray Constraints on the Hot Gas Content of Early-type Galaxies in Virgo
  • X-Ray Constraints on the Local Supermassive Black Hole Occupation Fraction
  • Young globular clusters in an old S0: clues to the formation history of NGC 4570
  • Young nuclei in dwarf elliptical galaxies
  • Young stellar populations in early-type dwarf galaxies. Occurrence, radial extent, and scaling relations
Instrument ACS, ACS/WFC, WFPC2, WFPC2/PC, WFPC2/WFC
Temporal Coverage 2002-12-25T18:39:12Z/2003-12-28T23:01:51Z
Version 1.0
Mission Description Launched in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope remains the premier UV and visible light telescope in orbit. With well over 1.6 million observations from 10 different scientific instruments, the ESA Hubble Science Archive is a treasure trove of astronomical data to be exploited.
Creator Contact https://support.cosmos.esa.int/esdc/index.php?/Tickets/Submit
Date Published 2005-01-27T04:10:10Z
Keywords Hubble, HST, HLA, HCV, ACS, COS, STIS, WFC3, FOC, FOS, HRS, NICMOS, WFPC, WFPC2
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Cote comma Patrick, 2005, 'The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-zx54nng