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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 5.

Top panel: radial velocity dispersion profile ﹩{\sigma }_{\mathrm{RAD}}﹩ of MS stars in 47 Tuc as a function of distance from the cluster center. For completeness, we also show in red the values computed using WFPC2 data, for which systematic effects cannot be quantified. Middle panel: tangential velocity dispersion profile for the same stars in the same radial bins. Bottom panel: deviation from isotropy (gray horizontal line). These profiles are based on MS stars in the magnitude range ﹩20\lt {m}_{{\rm{F}}606{\rm{W}}}\lt 22﹩, corresponding to a mass range between 0.62 and 0.47 M. Core and half-light radii (Harris 1996 values) are marked by the two vertical lines in all panels.

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