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We have used an Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrophotometer with the Adaptive Optics Bonnette on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to measure stellar radial velocities in the globular cluster M15. An average seeing of 0.15" full-width at half…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Gebhardt , Carlton Pryor , R. D. O'Connell , T. B. Williams , James E. Hesser

We report the first use of the Rutgers Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrophotometer to study the dynamics of the cores of globular clusters. We have obtained velocities for cluster stars by tuning the Fabry-Perot to take a series of narrow-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 K. Gebhardt , C. Pryor , T. B. Williams , J. E. Hesser

We analyze HST/STIS spectra (see Paper I) of the central region of the dense globular cluster M15. We infer the velocities of 64 individual stars, two-thirds of which have their velocity measured for the first time. This triples the number…

We describe images of the center of the dense globular cluster M15 (NGC 7078) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Data taken in the F336W, F439W, and F555W filters (approximately U, B, and V)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Puragra Guhathakurta , Brian Yanny , Donald P. Schneider , John N. Bahcall

We present velocities for 230 stars in the outer parts of the globular cluster M15 measured with the Hydra multi-object spectrograph on the WIYN telescope. A new Bayesian technique is used for analyzing the data. The mean velocity of the…

We construct orbit-based axisymmetric dynamical models for the globular cluster M15 which fit groundbased line-of-sight velocities and Hubble Space Telescope line-of-sight velocities and proper motions. This allows us to constrain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Remco van den Bosch , Tim de Zeeuw , Karl Gebhardt , Eva Noyola , Glenn van de Ven

The observed radial and transverse velocities of individual stars in M15 are implemented as inputs to a fully non-parametric code (CHASSIS) in order to estimate the equilibrium stellar distribution function and the three-dimensional mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dalia Chakrabarty

In this series of two papers we describe a project with STIS on HST to measure the line-of-sight velocities of stars in the central few arcsec of the dense globular cluster M15. This first paper focuses on the observations and reduction of…

Data obtained with the NICMOS instrument on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have been used to determine the H-band luminosity function (LF) and mass function (MF) of three stellar fields in the globular cluster M15, located ~7' from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Pasquali , G. De Marchi , L. Pulone , M. S. Brigas

We present observations of the stellar kinematics of the centre of the core collapsed globular cluster M15 obtained with the MUSE integral field spectrograph on the VLT operating in narrow field mode. Thanks to the use of adaptive optics,…

Using the Faint Object Camera on the repaired Hubble Space Telescope, we have observed two fields in the globular cluster M15: the central density cusp, and a field at r = 20''. These are the highest-resolution images ever taken of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Craig Sosin , Ivan R. King

By combining high spatial resolution and wide-field spectroscopy performed, respectively, with SINFONI and FLAMES at the ESO/VLT we measured the radial velocities of more than 600 stars in the direction of NGC 6388, a Galactic globular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Lanzoni , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , M. Bellazzini , F. R. Ferraro , E. Valenti , P. Miocchi , E. Dalessandro , C. Pallanca , D. Massari , -

We present high-resolution I-band imaging of the core of the globular cluster M15 obtained at the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope with FastCam, a low readout noise L3CCD based instrument. Short exposure times (30 ms) were used to record…

We present the measurement of radial velocities for globular clusters in M60, giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster. Target globular cluster candidates were selected using the Washington photometry based on the deep $16\arcmin \times…

The globular cluster M15 has recently been found to host a possible central black hole with a mass of ~2000 solar masses. A deep, high-resolution Chandra image failed to detect the "nucleus" of the cluster in X-rays. The upper limit on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Luis C. Ho , Yuichi Terashima , Takashi Okajima

Using the recently commissioned multi-object spectrograph AAOmega on the 3.9m AAT we have obtained medium-resolution near-infrared spectra for 10,500 stars in and around five southern globular clusters. The targets were 47 Tuc, M12, M30,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Székely , L. L. Kiss , K. Szatmáry , B. Csák , G. Á. Bakos , T. R. Bedding

We examine the radial distributions of stellar populations in the globular cluster (GC) M15, using HST/WFC3 photometry of red giants in the nitrogen-sensitive F343N-F555W color. Surprisingly, we find that giants with "primordial"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Soeren S. Larsen , Holger Baumgardt , Nate Bastian , Jean P. Brodie , Frank Grundahl , Jay Strader

We analyze line-of-sight velocity and proper motion data of stars in the Galactic globular cluster M15 using a new method to fit dynamical models to discrete kinematic data. Our fitting method maximizes the likelihood for individual stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Mark den Brok , Glenn van de Ven , Remco van den Bosch , Laura L. Watkins

Globular clusters at the distance of M31 have apparent angular sizes of a few arcseconds. While many M31 GCs have been detected and studied from ground-based images, the high spatial resolution of HST allows much more robust detection and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Barmby , J. P. Huchra

We used the PMAS integral field spectrograph to obtain large sets of radial velocities in the central regions of three northern Galactic globular clusters: M3, M13, and M92. By applying the novel technique of crowded field 3D spectroscopy,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Sebastian Kamann , Lutz Wisotzki , Martin M. Roth , Joris Gerssen , Tim-Oliver Husser , Christer Sandin , Peter Weilbacher
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