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.

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

Deep wide-field imaging from Subaru/Suprime-Cam is used to identify and measure the positions of candidate globular clusters around each survey galaxy.

The DEIMOS instrument has the advantages of being a stable, high throughput, wide-field spectrograph coupled with excellent velocity resolution (~12 km/s) on a 10m telescope.

Although only a small sample, the data reach to large galactocentric radii with excellent velocity resolution and S/N compared to other surveys.