Research

Press Release/News

• Galactic Census Reveals Origin of Most “Extreme” Galaxies (https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/en/news/ExtremeGalaxies/)

(Lim et al. 2020 & Liu et al. 2020)

• an AAS and IOP Publishing China Top Cited Paper Award: The Globular Cluster Systems of Ultra-diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster (Lim et al. 2018) (https://ioppublishing.org/china-top-cited-author-award/)

List of Publications

2024

• The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVII. The Size and Structure of Globular Cluster Systems and their Connection to Dark Matter Halos
  Lim, Sungsoon, Peng, Eric W., Côté, Patrick et al.
  2024, Accepted for publication in ApJ (arXiv:2403.09926)

• Constraining the stellar populations of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS survey using spectral energy distribution fitting
  Buzzo, Maria Luisa, Forbes, Duncan A., Jarrett, Thomas H. et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2024, Accepted for publication in MNRAS (arXiv:2402.12033)

2023

• An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters
  Wang, Kaixiang, Peng, Eric W., Liu, Chengze et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2023, Nature, 623, 296

• The creation of a massive UCD by tidal threshing from NGC 936
  Paudel, Sanjaya, Duc, Pierre-Alain, Lim, Sungsoon et al.
  2023, MNRAS, 526, 136

• Radial velocities and stellar population properties of 56 MATLAS dwarf galaxies observed with MUSE
  Heesters, Nick, Müller, Oliver, Marleau, Francine R., et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2023, A&A, 676, 33

• The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXV. First Kinematical Clues of Overly Massive Dark Matter Halos in Several Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
  Toloba, Elisa, Sales, Laura V., Lim, Sungsoon et al.
  2023, ApJ, 951, 77

2022

• The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIII. Stellar Population Gradients in the Virgo Cluster Core Globular Cluster System
  Ko, Youkyung, Peng, Eric W., Cote, Patrick et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2022 ApJ, 931, 120

• HI observations of the MATLAS dwarf and ultra-diffuse galaxies
  Poulain, Melina, Marleau, Francine R., Habas, Rebecca et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2022 A&A, 659, 14

• The Color Gradients of the Globular Cluster Systems in M87 and M49
  Wu, Yiming, Liu, Chengze, Peng, Eric W. et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2022 ApJ, 926, 149

• The Distance and Dynamical History of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615
  Mihos, J. Christopher, Durrell, Patrick, R., Toloba, Elisa et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2022 ApJ, 924, 87
  

2021

• Dwarf Galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Globular Cluster System in the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy MATLAS-2019
  Muller, Oliver, Durrell, Patrick R., Marleau, Francine R. et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2021 ApJ, 923, 9

• Structure and morphology of the MATLAS dwarf galaxies and their central nuclei
  Poulain, Melina, Marleau, Francine R., Habas, Rebecca et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2021 MNRAS, 506, 5494

• Ultra diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS low-to-moderate density fields
  Poulain, Melina, Marleau, Francine R., Habas, Rebecca et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2021 A&A, 654, 105

• Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Two Faint Dwarf Satellites of Nearby LMC Analogs from MADCASH
  Carlin, Jeffrey L., Mutlu-Pakdil, Burcin, Crnojevic, Denija et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2021 ApJ, 909, 211

2020

• Shedding light on the formation mechanism of shell galaxy NGC 474 with MUSE
  Fensch, Jeremy, Duc, Pierre-Alain, Lim, Sungsoon et al.
  2020 A&A 644, 164

• Mysterious Globular Cluster System of the Peculiar Massive Galaxy M85
  Ko, Youkyung, Lee, Myung Gyoon, Park, Hong Soo et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2020 ApJ, 903, 110

• The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIV. Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
  Liu, Chengze, Côté, Patrick, Peng, Eric W. et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2020 ApJS, 250, 17

• The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXX. Ultra-diffuse Galaxies and Their Globular Cluster Systems
  Lim, Sungsoon, Côté, Patrick, Peng, Eric W. et al.
  2020 ApJ, 899, 69

• Spectroscopic study of MATLAS-2019 with MUSE: An ultra-diffuse galaxy with an excess of old globular clusters
  Müller, Oliver, Marleau, Francine R., Duc, Pierre-Alain et al. (including Lim, Sungsoon)
  2020 A&A, 640, 106

• The Formation of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in Clusters
  Sales, L. V., Navarro, J. F., Penafiel, L., Peng, E. W., Lim, S. and Hernquist, L.
  2020 MNRAS, 494, 1848

• A discrete chemo-dynamical model of M87’s globular clusters: Kinematics extending to ∼400 kpc
  Li, Chao, Zhu, Ling, Long, R. J. et al. (including Lim, S.)
  2020 MNRAS, 492, 2775

2019

• The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXIII. Fundamentals of Nuclear Star Clusters over Seven Decades in Galaxy Mass
  Sánchez-Janssen, R., Côté, P., Ferrarese, L. et al. (including Lim, S.)
  2019 ApJ, 878, 18S

• The ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 with MUSE. II. The population of DF2: stars, clusters, and planetary nebulae
  Fensch, J, van der Burg, R. F. J., Jeřábková, T. et al. (including Lim, S.)
  2019 A&A, 625, 77

• The ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 with MUSE. I. Kinematics of the stellar body
  Emsellem, E., van der Burg, R. F. J., Fensch, J et al. (including Lim, S.)
  2019 A&A, 625, 76

• A Wide-field Photometric Survey of Globular Clusters in the Peculiar Early-type Galaxy M85
  Ko, Y., Lee, M. G., Park, H. S., Lim, S. et al.
  2019 ApJ, 872, 202

2018

• Globular clusters vs. dark matter haloes in strong lensing observations
  He, Q., Li, R., Lim, S. et al.
  2018 MNRAS, 480, 5084

• Globular cluster systems of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster
  Lim, S., Peng, E., Cote, P., et al.
  2018 ApJ, 862, 82

• Gemini/GMOS Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in the Merger Remnant Galaxy M85
  Ko, Y., Lee, M. G., Park, H. S., Sohn, J., Lim, S., and Hwang, N.
  2018 ApJ, 859, 108

• Dark Matter in Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster from Their Globular Cluster Populations
  Toloba, E., Lim, S., Peng, E., et al.
  2018 ApJL, 856, 31

2017 & earlier

• Globular clusters as tracers of fine structure in the dramatic shell galaxy NGC 474
  Lim, S., Peng, E., Duc, P.-A., et al.
  2017 ApJ, 835, 123

• To the Edge of M87 and Beyond: Spectroscopy of Intracluster Globular Clusters and Ultra Compact Dwarfs in the Virgo Cluster
  Ko, Y., Hwang, H. S, Lee, M. G., Park, H. S, Lim, S. et al.
  2017 ApJ, 835, 212

• The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XII. Diffuse Star Clusters in Early-type Galaxies
  Liu, Y., Peng, E., Lim, S., Jordan, A., Blakeslee, J., Cote, P., Ferrarese, L., and Pattarakijwanich, P.
  2016, ApJ, 830, 99

• New Constraints on a Complex Relation Between Globular Cluster Colors and Environment
  Powalka, M., Puzia, T., Lancon, A., Peng, E., Schonebeck, F., Alamo-Martinez, K., Angel, S., Blakeslee, J., Cote, P., Cuillandre, J.-C., Duc, P.-A., Durrell, P., Ferrarese, L., Grebel, E., Guhathakurta, P., Gwyn, S., Kuntschner, H., Lim, S., Liu, C., Lyubenova, M, Mihos, C., Munoz, R., Ordenes-Briceno, Y., Roediger, J., Sanchez-Janssen, R., Spengler, C., Toloba, E., and Zhang, H.
  2016, ApJL, 829, 5

• A Rich Globular Cluster System in Dragonfly 17: Are Ultra-diffuse Galaxies Pure Stellar Halos?
  Peng, E. and Lim, S
  2016, ApJL, 822, 2

• The Most Massive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy in the Virgo
  Liu, C., Peng, E., Toloba, E. Mihos, C., Ferrares, L., Alamo-Martinez, K., Zhang, H.-X., Cote, P., Cuillandre, J.-C., Cunningham, E., Guhathakurta, P., Gwyn, S., Herczeg, G., Lim, S., Puzia, T., Roedieger, J., Sanchez-Janssen, R., and Yin, J.
  2015, ApJL, 812, 2

• The Star Cluster System in the Local Group Starburst Galaxy IC 10
  Lim, S. and Lee, M. G.
  2015, ApJ, 804, 123

• Optical Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnants in M81 and M82
  Lee, M. G., Sohn, J., Lee, J. H., Lim, S., Jang, I. S., Ko., Y. K., Koo, B. C., Hwang, N., Kim, S. C., and Park, B.
  2015, ApJ, 804, 63

• Spectroscopic Study of Extended Star Clusters in Dwarf Galaxy NGC6822
  Hwang, N., Park, H. S., Lee, M. G., Lim, S., Hodge, P. W., Kim, S. C., Miller, B., and Weidz, D.
  2014, ApJ, 783, 49

• Ks Band Luminosity Evolution of the Asymptotic Giant Branch Population Based on Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
  Ko, Y., Lee, M. G., and Lim, S.
  2013, ApJ, 777, 82

• The Star Cluster System in the Nearby Starburst Galaxy M82
  Lim, S., Hwang, N., and Lee, M. G.
  2013, ApJ, 766, 20

• Discovery of the Most Isolated Globular Clusters in the Local Universe
  Jang, I. S., Lim, S., Park, H. S., and Lee, M. G.
  2012, ApJ, 751, 19

• Merging Galaxy Cluster A2255 in Mid-infrared
  Shim, H. J., Im, M., Lee, H. M., Lee, M. G., Kim, S. J., Hwang, H. S., Hwang, N., Lee, J. C., Lim, S., Matuhara, H., Seo, H., Wada, T., and Goto, T.
  2011, ApJ, 727, 14

• The Mid-infrared View of Red Sequence Galaxies in Abell 2218 with Akari
  Ko, J., Im, M., Lee, H. M., Lee, M. G., Hopwood, R. H., Serjeant, S. ,Smail, I, Hwang, G. S., Hwang, N., Shim, H., Kim, S, Lee, J. C., Lim, S., Seo, H., Goto, T., Hananmi, H., Matuhara, H., Takagi, T. and Wada, T.
  2009, ApJ, 695, 198