[PDF] Top 20 Dynamics of globular cluster systems

... At some finite radius, the star counts are overwhelmed by the surface density · of foreground stars, and the limiting radii of globular clusters have never actually been seen.. In the ex[r] ... See full document

... in globular clusters in great ...the globular cluster 47 Tucanae have revealed quies- cent low-mass X-ray binaries (qLMXBs) that have not expe- rienced X-ray outbursts in the history of X-ray ... See full document

... extragalactic globular cluster ...tragalactic globular cluster systems outside the Local ...of globular clusters and their host ...Way globular clusters with ages and ... See full document

... The Pal 5 data discussed here were taken as part of a broader program to study the internal dynamics of outer halo globular clusters (see, e.g., Cˆot´e et al. 2002, Jordi et al. 2009, Baumgardt et al. 2009; ... See full document

... One of the oldest and most successful theories in astrophysics is stellar evolution. In particular, the latter is largely in agreement with observations of globular clusters (GCs; e.g., [16], [8]), which are ... See full document

... observed dynamics of the Pom cluster in ...Par systems for chromosome and plasmid segregation (see section ...Pom cluster is more mobile if PomZ is present than without PomZ, (ii) FRAP / ... See full document

... A further argument came from the simulations of disk galaxies. Ostriker and Peebles (1973) studied numerical simulations of highly flattened discs, with very small velocity dispersions, i.e. cold discs. These ... See full document

... stellar systems known to exist in the Milky Way (MW) are metal-poor globular clusters ...these systems generi- cally are composed of two up to three chemically –and some- times even photometrically– ... See full document

... qLMXB systems, and from uncertainties due to fitting two components (the power-law plus thermal components) to a ...some globular clusters (4% distance uncertainty to 47 Tuc, Gratton et ...well-studied ... See full document

... in systems with an abundance of ionised gas and X-ray emission (even in the case of galaxies such as NGC ...rich systems have equal quantities of molecular hydrogen (or other molecules), in ... See full document

... The globular cluster 47 Tuc is well known for its large number of MSPs, which are believed to have been produced by the evolution of LMXBs that were themselves produced through interactions of binaries and ... See full document

... note that Shara et al. (1996) based their comparison on a small sample of about 20 well studied DNe which are not likely to represent the global population. Two hypotheses remain to be fully tested. (1) Dynamical effects ... See full document

... Acknowledgements. Our thanks go to Christine Clement for clarifying the known variable star content of each cluster and the numbering systems within each one while we were working on these clusters. This ... See full document

... in globular clusters, especially when combined with the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope ...different globular clusters, exploring similarities or differences in properties or forma- tion mechanisms ... See full document

... a globular cluster would be most welcome, as we could then test the exact same models as used so successfully for the field sdBV r stars in a globular cluster ...the globular ... See full document

... The analyzed event was unusually sensitive to planets, independent of the possibility that the lens might be a cluster member. First, the source star is a low-luminosity giant, meaning that photometry from both ... See full document

... 12 • branch of this cluster appears to be the f a intest of a ll such branches in globular clusterso Sandage and Smith 1966 h a ve found a progressio n in colour of the giants at the lev[r] ... See full document

... cluster spectrum was very weak in metals, but that stronger lined clusters did exist. Morgan (1956, 1959) was later to extend this work and demon­ strate the existence of a continuous set of spectral types, ... See full document

... more globular shell morphology with larger aperture area was found at higher flow rates, the increase in drag being hypothesized to be counterbalanced by a larger foot [22, 23, 36, ...and globular shell in ... See full document

... We recover the first three known RR Lyrae in this clus- ter (V1-V3) in our data, and calculate periods for each of them, using phase dispersion minimisation (PDM; Stellingwerf 1978) and the “string length” method (Lafler ... See full document