The Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS). XXV. Fiducial panchromatic colors of Virgo core globular clusters and their comparison to model predictions
Mathieu Powalka, Ariane Lan\c{c}on, Thomas H. Puzia, Eric W. Peng,, Chengze Liu, Roberto P. Mu\~noz, John P. Blakeslee, Patrick C\^ot\'e, Laura, Ferrarese, Joel Roediger, R\'uben S\'anchez-Janssen, Hongxin Zhang, Patrick, R. Durrell, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Pierre-Alain Duc

TL;DR
This study uses extensive photometric data from the NGVS to analyze the spectral energy distributions of Virgo core globular clusters, comparing observations with multiple stellar population models to evaluate their accuracy.
Contribution
It provides a detailed, multi-dimensional color analysis of a large sample of globular clusters and assesses the performance of various population synthesis models against observed data.
Findings
Globular clusters form a narrow sequence in 5D color space.
No single population synthesis model matches all observed colors.
Discrepancies between models and data suggest areas for model improvement.
Abstract
The central region of the Virgo cluster of galaxies contains thousands of globular clusters (GCs), an order of magnitude more than the numbers found in the Local Group. Relics of early star formation epochs in the universe, these GCs also provide ideal targets to test our understanding of the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of old stellar populations. Based on photometric data from the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) and its near-infrared counterpart NGVS-IR, we select a robust sample of 1846 GCs with excellent photometry and spanning the full range of colors present in the Virgo core. The selection exploits the well defined locus of GCs in the uiK diagram and the fact that the globular clusters are marginally resolved in the images. We show that the GCs define a narrow sequence in 5-dimensional color space, with limited but real dispersion around the mean sequence. The…
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