Measuring mass-to-light ratios of spherical stellar systems by core fitting.
Abstract
The authors discuss the determination of mass-to-light ratios of spherical stellar systems by core fitting (King's method). They justify the core-fitting formula and state the conditions for its validity.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1086/114135
- Bibcode:
- 1986AJ.....92...72R
- Keywords:
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- Mass To Light Ratios;
- Star Clusters;
- Stellar Physics;
- Stellar Systems;
- Polytropic Processes;
- Spheres;
- Stellar Cores;
- Stellar Models;
- Astrophysics