Description
To explore the production of UV-bright stars in old, metal-rich populations like those in elliptical galaxies, we have obtained Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph far- and near-UV photometry of globular clusters (GCs) in four fields in the giant elliptical (gE) galaxy M87. To a limit of m_FUV_~25 we detect a total of 66 GCs in common with the deep HST optical-band study of Kundu et al. (1999, Cat. <J/ApJ/513/733>).
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