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Evidence for An Intermediate-Age, Metal-rich Population of Globular Clusters in NGC 4365

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 2 1 1 4 3 4 v 1 1 9 N o v 2 0 0 2 Accepted for publication in ApJ Evidence for An Intermediate-age, Metal-rich Population of Globular Clusters in NGC 43651 S?ren S. Larsen and Jean P. Brodie UCO / Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz, USA soeren@ucolick.org, brodie@ucolick.org and Michael A. Beasley and Duncan A. Forbes Astrophysics Supercomputing, Swinburne University, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia dforbes@astro.swin.edu.au and mbeasley@astro.swin.edu.au and Markus Kissler-Patig and Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra?e 2, D-85748 Garching b. Mu?nchen, Germany mkissler@eso.org, hkuntsch@eso.org and Thomas H. Puzia Sternwarte Mu?nchen, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Mu?nchen, Germany puzia@usm.uni-muenchen.de ABSTRACT We present spectroscopy for globular clusters (GCs) in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4365, obtained with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. Pre- vious studies have shown that the optical color distribution of GCs in NGC 4365 lacks the bimodal structure that is common in globular cluster systems, showing only a single broad peak. Measurements of Balmer line indices (Hβ, Hγ and – 2 – Hδ) on the GC spectra support recent suggestions by Puzia et al., based on op- tical and near-infrared photometry, that some of the clusters in NGC 4365 are intermediate-age (2–5 Gyrs) and metal-rich (?0.4 . [Z/H] . 0) rather than old (～10–15 Gyrs) and metal-poor. We also find some genuinely metal-poor, old clusters, suggesting that the ages and metallicities of the two populations conspire to produce the single broad distribution observed in optical colors. Subject headings: galaxies:elliptical and lenticular,cD — galaxies:individual (NGC 4365) — galaxies:evolution — globular clusters: general 1. Introduction Several recent studies have shown that complicated color distributions in globular cluster systems (GCSs) are the norm rather than the exception (Gebhardt Kissler-Patig 1999; Kundu Whitmore 2001; L