Study of intergalactic diffuse light within the Fornax Cluster

CIFUENTES CÁRDENAS, A. N.; CELLONE, S. A.; FORTE, J. C.

Pucón, Chile

Congreso; XI IAU Regional Latin-American Meeting of Astronomy; 2006

IAU

The goal of this work is to quantify and to assess the detectability of the intercluster light (ICL) due to the contribution from the outermost zones of each galaxy in Fornax, and also to quantify the surface density of globular clusters (GC´s) belonging to the whole cluster of galaxies. In this way we wish to estimate the amount of GC´s that may be associated with the cluster of galaxies potential. We simulated an astronomical image of the Fornax cluster from the catalogue of Ferguson (1989, AJ, 98, 367) and the observation conditions were taken from CTIO, photometric techniques (with IRAF) were used to analyze this image.