Space Telescope observations of globular clusters.
Abstract
Six proposed Space Telescope programs involving globular clusters are described. The projects appropriate for galactic clusters are: the detection of white dwarfs, the study of the faint end of the Population II luminosity function, the measurement of mass segregation, and the search for a cusp in the density distribution caused by core collapse or by a massive black hole. The two programs that involve extragalactic globular clusters are: the determination of the luminosity function of clusters around different galaxies and the measurement of tidal radii of clusters surrounding elliptical galaxies.
- Publication:
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Dynamics of Star Clusters
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985IAUS..113..481B
- Keywords:
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- Globular Clusters;
- Hubble Space Telescope;
- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Star Distribution;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Stellar Mass;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Astrophysics;
- Black Holes:Globular Clusters;
- Collapse:Globular Clusters;
- Globular Clusters:Black Holes;
- Globular Clusters:Collapse;
- Globular Clusters:Space Telescope;
- Space Telescope:Globular Clusters