Ellipticities of globular clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Abstract
The LMC old populous clusters are found to be markedly more elliptical than the globular clusters of the Galaxy. The mean ellipticity, averaged for 25 clusters, is 0.22. The distribution of true ellipticities, corrected for projection effects, suggests that very few LMC clusters are spherical, most having true ellipticities in the range 0.2-0.4.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- November 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1086/158444
- Bibcode:
- 1980ApJ...242...66G
- Keywords:
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- Elliptical Galaxies;
- Globular Clusters;
- Magellanic Clouds;
- Microdensitometers;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Astronomy