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Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) Catalogs of Galactic Globular Clusters. V. The Rapid Rotation of 47 Tuc Traced and Modeled in Three Dimensions

  • Authors: A. Bellini, P. Bianchini, A. L. Varri, J. Anderson, G. Piotto, R. P. van der Marel, E. Vesperini, and L. L. Watkins

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 844 167.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Footprints of the four fields analyzed in this work, superimposed on an SDSS image of 47 Tuc. The irregular shapes of the fields are due to overlapping data sets with different pointings, rotation angles, and sometimes even taken with different detectors. The PM catalog of the central field (in red) is that of Paper I, while the other three fields in yellow (inner, calibration, and outer, from left to right, respectively) have been specifically reduced and analyzed to measure the rotation of 47 Tuc in the plane of the sky. The scale and orientation are also shown in the bottom left corner of the figure.

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