Accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters through a combination of Gaia EDR3, HST, and literature data

H Baumgardt, E Vasiliev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We have derived accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters by combining data from the
Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) with distances based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) …

A catalogue of masses, structural parameters, and velocity dispersion profiles of 112 Milky Way globular clusters

H Baumgardt, M Hilker - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We have determined masses, stellar mass functions, and structural parameters of 112 Milky
Way globular clusters by fitting a large set of N-body simulations to their velocity dispersion …

Testing the strong equivalence principle: detection of the external field effect in rotationally supported galaxies

KH Chae, F Lelli, H Desmond… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The strong equivalence principle (SEP) distinguishes general relativity (GR) from other
viable theories of gravity. The SEP demands that the internal dynamics of a self-gravitating …

Proper motions and dynamics of the Milky Way globular cluster system from Gaia DR2

E Vasiliev - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We use Gaia Data Release 2 to determine the mean proper motions for 150 Milky
Way globular clusters (almost the entire known population), with a typical uncertainty of 0.05 …

Dark Coincidences: Small-Scale Solutions with Refracted Gravity and MOND

V Cesare - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
General relativity and its Newtonian weak field limit are not sufficient to explain the observed
phenomenology in the Universe, from the formation of large-scale structures to the dynamics …

The membership of stars, density profile, and mass segregation in open clusters using a new machine learning-based method

M Noormohammadi, M Khakian Ghomi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A combination of two unsupervised machine learning algorithms, DBSCAN:
Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise, and GMM: Gaussian mixture …

Absolute-band magnitudes and mass-to-light ratios of Galactic globular clusters

H Baumgardt, A Sollima, M Hilker - Publications of the Astronomical …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We have used Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based photometry to determine total V-
band magnitudes and mass-to-light ratios of more than 150 Galactic globular clusters. We …

Measuring consistent masses for 25 Milky Way globular clusters

B Kimmig, A Seth, II Ivans, J Strader… - The Astronomical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present central velocity dispersions, masses, mass-to-light ratios (ML s), and rotation
strengths for 25 Galactic globular clusters (GCs). We derive radial velocities of 1951 stars in …

Stellar streams as gravitational experiments-I. The case of Sagittarius

GF Thomas, B Famaey, R Ibata, F Lüghausen… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Tidal streams of disrupting dwarf galaxies orbiting around their host galaxy offer a unique
way to constrain the shape of galactic gravitational potentials. Such streams can be used as …

Gaia-IGRINS synergy: Orbits of newly identified Milky Way star clusters

ER Garro, JG Fernández-Trincado, D Minniti… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The recent and exquisite astrometric, photometric, and radial velocity
measurements of the Gaia mission resulted in a substantial advancement of the …