Browsing by Author "Cote, Patrick"

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    Evidence for the hierarchical formation of the galactic spheroid 
    West, Michael J.; Cote, Patrick; Marzke, Ronald O.; Minniti, Dante (American Astronomical Society, 2000-04)
    The possibility that the Galactic spheroid was assembled from isolated, chemically distinct proto-Galactic fragments is investigated using a Monte Carlo technique designed to simulate the chemical evolution of the Galaxy ...

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    The formation of giant elliptical galaxies and their globular cluster systems 
    West, Michael J.; Cote, Patrick; Marzke, Ronald O. (American Astronomical Society, 1998-07)
    We examine the formation of giant elliptical galaxies using their globular cluster (GC) systems as probes of their evolutionary history. The bimodal distributions of GC metallicities in such galaxies are often cited as ...

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    The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). I. Introduction to the survey 
    Ferrarese, Laura; Cote, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, S. D. J.; Peng, Eric W.; MacArthur, Lauren A.; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Boselli, A.; Mei, Simona; Erben, Thomas; Sawicki, Marcin, 1969- (American Astronomical SocietyIOP Publishing, 2012-05)
    The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a program that uses the 1 deg[superscript 2] MegaCam instrument on the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical imaging survey of the Virgo ...