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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 4.

Rotation map of 47 Tuc in the plane of the sky. Vectors are magnified by a factor of 750. For completeness, we also show the LOS-based rotation axis (136° north to east; Bianchini et al. 2013).

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