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MATLAS: a deep exploration of the surroundings of massive early-type galaxies

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The MATLAS project explores the surroundings of a complete sample of nearby massive early-type galaxies with multi-colour deep optical images obtained at the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope. The observing and data reduction techniques ensured the detection of extended low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, while the high image quality allowed us to identify associated compact objects such as star clusters. A number of scientific topics are addressed with this data-set that are briefly presented in this review: the study of foreground Galactic cirrus at high spatial resolution, telling us about the ISM structure; the characterisation of collisional debris around the galaxies (streams, tails, shells, stellar halos), giving hints on their past merger history; the distribution of dwarf galaxy satellites, including the ultra-diffuse ones, together with their globular cluster population, which are additional tracers of the formation and mass assembly of galaxies.
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hal-02993486 , version 1 (06-11-2020)

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Pierre-Alain Duc. MATLAS: a deep exploration of the surroundings of massive early-type galaxies. 2020. ⟨hal-02993486⟩
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