supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10873016, 10633020, 10803007,11003021, 11173016 and 11073032);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, 2007CB815403)
We present metal abundance properties of 144 globular clusters associated with M81. These globulars represent the largest globular cluster sample in M81 till now. Our main results are: the distribution of metalliciti...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 10873016 and 10633020);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,No. 2007CB815403)
We present the first photometric results in J, H and Ks from 2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) imaging of 10 classical globular clusters (GCs) in the far outer regions of M31. Combined with the V and I photometric...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (GrantNos. 10873016,10633020,10603006,10803007,10903011,11003021 and 11073032);by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program; Nos. 2007CB815403,2010CB833004 and 2009CB82480X)
The Andromeda galaxy was observed by the Guoshoujing Telescope (formerly named the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope -- LAMOST), during the 2009 commissioning phase. Due to the absence of sta...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10873016 and 10633020);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program),No. 2007CB815403
B037 is of interest because it is both the most luminous and the most highly reddened cluster known in M31. Deep observations and high spatial resolution images with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.10873016,10633020,10603006 and 10803007);by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,No.2007CB815403)
The Chinese Small Telescope Array (CSTAR) is the first Chinese astronomical instrument on the Antarctic ice cap. The low temperature and low pressure testing of the data acquisition system was carried out in a labor...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 10778618 and 10633020);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2007CB815403)
An optical photometric observation with the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan- Connecticut (BATC) multicolor system is carried out for A98 (z =0.104), a galaxy cluster with two large enhancements in X-ray surface brightness....
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10873016,10803007,10473012,10573020,10633020,10673012 and 10603006);Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,No.2007CB815403)
We present the photometry of 30 globular clusters (GCs) and GC candidates in 15 intermediate-band filters covering the wavelength region from - 3000 to 10000A using the archival CCD images of M31 observed as part o...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Nos. 10573014, 10633020 and 10873012);the Knowledge InnovationProgram of the Chinese Academy of Science (No. KJCX2-YW-T05);National Basic ResearchProgram of China (973 Program) (No. 2007CB815404).
We present a quantitative study of the classification of Extremely Red Objects (EROs). The analysis is based on the multi-band spatial- and ground-based observations (HST/ACS-BViz, HST/NICMOS-JH, VLT-JHK) in the H...