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) …

Mean proper motions, space orbits, and velocity dispersion profiles of Galactic globular clusters derived from Gaia DR2 data

H Baumgardt, M Hilker, A Sollima… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We have derived the mean proper motions and space velocities of 154 Galactic globular
clusters and the velocity dispersion profiles of 141 globular clusters based on a combination …

The internal rotation of globular clusters revealed by Gaia DR2

P Bianchini, RP van der Marel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Line-of-sight kinematic studies indicate that many Galactic globular clusters have a
significant degree of internal rotation. However, three-dimensional kinematics from a …

The HST large programme on ω Centauri. II. Internal kinematics

A Bellini, M Libralato, LR Bedin, AP Milone… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this second installment of the series, we look at the internal kinematics of the multiple
stellar populations of the globular cluster ω Centauri in one of the parallel Hubble Space …

Hubble Space Telescope proper motion (HSTPROMO) catalogs of galactic globular cluster. VI. Improved data reduction and internal-kinematic analysis of NGC 362

M Libralato, A Bellini, RP Van Der Marel… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved data-reduction technique to obtain high-precision proper motions
(PMs) of globular clusters (GCs) using Hubble Space Telescope data. The new reduction is …

Compact object modeling in the globular cluster 47 tucanae

SY Claire, K Kremer, CL Rodriguez… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) is one of the most massive star clusters in
the Milky Way and is exceptionally rich in exotic stellar populations. For several decades it …

A multimass velocity dispersion model of 47 Tucanae indicates no evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole

CR Mann, H Richer, J Heyl, J Anderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we analyze stellar proper motions in the core of the globular cluster 47
Tucanae to explore the possibility of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) influence on …

Effects of massive central objects on the degree of energy equipartition of globular clusters

FI Aros, E Vesperini - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present an analysis of the degree of energy equipartition in a sample of 101 Monte Carlo
numerical simulations of globular clusters (GCs) hosting either a system of stellar-mass …

Distances to the globular clusters 47 Tucanae and NGC 362 using Gaia DR2 parallaxes

S Chen, H Richer, I Caiazzo, J Heyl - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Using parallaxes from Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2), we estimate the distance
to the globular clusters 47 Tuc and NGC 362, taking advantage of the background stars in …

The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XVIII. Proper-motion kinematics of multiple stellar populations in the core regions of …

M Libralato, A Bellini, G Piotto, D Nardiello… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the analysis of the radial distributions and kinematic properties of the multiple
stellar populations (mPOPs) hosted in the globular cluster (GC) NGC 6352 as part of the …