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Anisotropy of the Velocity Dispersion in ω Centauri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

G. Meylan
G. Meylan*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, U.S.A.

Abstract

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By far the brightest and the most massive globular cluster in our Galaxy,ω Cen seems to be, in some of its properties, a kind of transition step between dwarf ellipticals and ordinary globular clusters. For this giant cluster, the comparison between observations and King-Michie multi-mass dynamical models appears possible only using models with strong anisotropy in the velocity dispersion. A more comprehensive description of this work is to be published (Meylan 1986).

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 127: Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies , 1987 , pp. 449 - 450
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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