No sign (yet) of intergalactic globular clusters in the Local Group

We present Gemini/GMOS imaging of twelve candidate intergalactic globular clusters (IGCs) in the Local Group, identified in a recent survey of the SDSS footprint by di Tullio Zinn & Zinn (2015). Our image quality is sufficiently high, at \sim 0.4^{\prime\prime} - 0.7^{\prime\prime}, that we are able to unambiguously classify all... Show more