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Radial velocities for three distant LMC globular clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Jesper Storm  and
Bruce W. Carney
Jesper Storm
Affiliation:
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Phillips Hall, CB#3255, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA Copenhagen Univ. Observatory, Øster Voldgade 3, DK-1350 Copenhagen K., Denmark
Bruce W. Carney
Affiliation:
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Phillips Hall, CB#3255, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Abstract

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In an attempt to investigate the large scale structure and dynamics of the old population of the LMC, we have obtained high precision radial velocities for three extremely outlying (10°-15° from the LMC center) globular clusters. Our results agree well with the results from Freeman et al. (1983) that the clusters move in a disk like system. Depending on the assumptions used we can put a lower limit to the LMC mass of about 0.5-2.5×1010M⊙

Type
Star Formation and Clustering
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 148: The Magellanic Clouds , 1991 , pp. 215 - 216
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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