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With a high value of heliocentric radial velocity, a retrograde orbit, and being suspected to have an extragalactic origin, NGC 3201 is an interesting globular cluster for kinematical studies. Our purpose is to calculate the relative proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Devesh P. Sariya , Ing-Guey Jiang , R. K. S. Yadav

NGC 6809 is a luminous metal-poor halo globular cluster that is relatively easy to study due to its proximity and low concentration. Because of its high Galactic latitude (b = -23deg), interstellar reddening and contamination is not very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Devesh P. Sariya , R. K. S. Yadav , A. Bellini

Relative proper motions and cluster membership probabilities of 30 stars within an area of 14' of diameter centered in the open cluster NGC1662 (\alpha=04^{\rm h}48^{\rm m}, \delta=+10^{\rm o}56') are determined by combining positions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. S. Dias , R. Boczko , J. I. B. Camargo , R. Teixeira , P. Benevides-Soares

We present the first study of high-precision internal proper motions (PMs) in a large sample of globular clusters, based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data obtained over the past decade with the ACS/WFC, ACS/HRC, and WFC3/UVIS…

Relative proper motions and cluster membership probabilities have been derived for ~ 2500 stars in the field of the open star cluster NGC 3766. The cluster has been observed in $B$ and $V$ broadband filters at two epochs separated by ~ 6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 R. K. S. Yadav , Devesh P. Sariya , R. Sagar

Omega Centauri is the most well studied Globular Cluster because of its numerous puzzling features. Intensive spectroscopic follow-up observing campaigns targeting stars at different positions on the color-magnitude diagram promises to…

Absolute proper motions, their corresponding errors and membership probabilities of 501 stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2548 region are determined from MAMA measurements of 10 photographic plates. The plates have the maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Wu , K. P. Tian , L. Balaguer-Nunez , C. Jordi , J. L. Zhao , J. Guibert

The results of astrometric and photometric investigations of the poorly studied open cluster NGC 1513 are presented. The proper motions of 353 stars with the root-mean-square error of 1.9 mas/yr were obtained by means of the automated…

We derive relative proper motions of stars in the fields of the globular clusters M12, NGC 6362, M4, M55, M22, NGC 6752, NGC 3201, M30, M10, NGC 362, M5, and 47 Tucanae based on data collected between 1997 and 2015 with the 1-m Swope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 W. Narloch , J. Kaluzny , R. Poleski , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , I. B. Thompson

We derive relative proper motions of stars in the fields of globular clusters M4, M12, M22, NGC 3201, NGC 6362 and NGC 6752 based on a uniform data set collected between 1997 and 2008. We assign a membership class for each star with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 K. Zloczewski , J. Kaluzny , M. Rozyczka , W. Krzeminski , B. Mazur , I. B. Thompson

We have calculated proper motions and re-evaluated the membership probabilities of 810 stars in the area of two NGC objects, NGC 1817 and NGC 1807. We have obtained absolute proper motions from 25 plates in the reference system of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Balaguer-Nunez , C. Jordi , D. Galadi-Enriquez , J. L. Zhao

We cross-match objects from several different astronomical catalogs to determine the absolute proper proper motions of stars within the 30-arcmin radius fields of 115 Milky-Way globular clusters with the accuracy of 1--2~mas/yr. The proper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. A. Chemel , E. V. Glushkova , A. K. Dambis , A. S. Rastorguev , L. N. Yalyalieva

We present proper motion (PM) measurements for a sample of 23 massive star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud using multi-epoch data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We combined archival data from the ACS/WFC and WFC3/UVIS…

We have undertaken a long term program to measure high precision proper motions of nearby Galactic globular cluster (GC) stars using multi-epoch observations with the WFPC2 and the ACS cameras on-board the Hubble Space Telescope. The proper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , I. R. King

We present the first proper motion study of M10 (NGC6254). Absolute proper motions of about 532 stars in the field of the globular cluster M10 were determined with respect to Hipparcos and ACT reference stars. In addition to photographic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Chen , M. Geffert , J. J. Wang , K. Reif , J. M. Braun

As a by-product of high-precision, ultra-deep stellar photometry in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 with the Hubble Space Telescope, we are able to measure a large population of background galaxies whose images are nearly point-like.…

We use stellar proper motions (PM) from Gaia Data Release 2 for studying the internal kinematics of Milky Way globular clusters. In addition to statistical measurement errors, there are significant spatially correlated systematic errors,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 Eugene Vasiliev

We have derived the absolute proper motion (PM) of the globular cluster M55 using a large set of CCD images collected with the du Pont telescope between 1997 and 2008. We find (PM_RA*cos(DEC), PM_DEC) = (-3.31 +/- 0.10, -9.14 +/- 0.15)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Zloczewski , J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson

WFPC2 images obtained with the Hubble Space telescope 4.16 years apart have allowed us to measure the proper motion of the metal rich globular cluster NGC 6553 with respect to the background bulge stars. With a space velocity of (${\Pi},…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 M. Zoccali , A. Renzini , S. Ortolani , E. Bica , B. Barbuy

The solar-age open cluster M67 (C0847+120, NGC2682) is a touchstone in studies of the old Galactic disk. Despite its outstanding role, the census of cluster membership for M67 at fainter magnitudes and their properties are not…

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