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Radial velocities in the globular cluster omega Centauri | | R.A. Reijns
; P. Seitzer
; R. Arnold
; K.C. Freeman
; T. Ingerson
; R.C.E. van den Bosch
; G. van de Ven
; P.T. de Zeeuw
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8 Sep 2005 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | Sterrewacht Leiden), P. Seitzer (University of Michigan), R. Arnold (University of Wellington), K.C. Freeman (Australian National University), T. Ingerson (National Optical Astronomy Observatories), R.C.E. van den Bosch (Sterrewacht Leiden), G. van de | | Abstract: | We have used the ARGUS multi-object spectrometer at the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope to obtain 2756 radial velocity measurements for 1966 individual stars in the globular cluster omega Centauri brighter than blue photographic magnitude of about 16.5. Of these, 1589 stars are cluster members. A comparison with two independent radial velocity studies, carried out by Suntzeff & Kraft and by Mayor et al., demonstrates that the median error of our measurements is below 2 km/s for the stars brighter than B-magnitude 15, which constitute the bulk of the sample. The observed velocity dispersion decreases from about 15 km/s in the inner few arcmin to about 6 km/s at a radius of 25 arcmin. The cluster shows significant rotation, with a maximum amplitude of about 6 km/s in the radial zone between 6 and 10 arcmin. In a companion paper by van de Ven et al., we correct these radial velocities for the perspective rotation caused by the space motion of the cluster, and combine them with the internal proper motions of nearly 8000 cluster members measured by van Leeuwen et al., to construct a detailed dynamical model of omega Centauri and to measure its distance. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0509227 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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