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arxiv: 1010.3513 · v1 · pith:CHPKP2AGnew · submitted 2010-10-18 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO

Faint dwarf galaxies in the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey

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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a CFHT Large Program that is using the wide field of view capabilities of the MegaCam camera to map the entire Virgo Cluster from its core to virial radius. The observing strategy has been optimized to detect very low surface brightness structures in the cluster, including intracluster stellar streams and faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We present here the current status of this ongoing survey, with an emphasis on the detection and analysis of the very low-mass galaxies in the cluster that have been revealed by the NGVS.

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