SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey information

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SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey

Colour thumbnails of the 25 galaxies in the SLUGGS survey.
Website	sluggs.swin.edu.au
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The SLUGGS (SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS) survey is an astronomical survey of 25 (and 3 `bonus') nearby early-type (E and S0) galaxies. This survey uses a combination of imaging from Subaru/Suprime-Cam and spectroscopy from Keck/DEIMOS to investigate the chemo-dynamical properties of both the diffuse starlight and the globular cluster systems of the target galaxies. Pilot data for the survey was obtained in 2006 and data acquisition was completed in 2017.^[1]

The SLUGGS project was so named in honor of the banana slug mascot of the University of California, Santa Cruz.