A stellar diamond in Virgo.
Abstract
A system of five stars, containing objects of 12-13 mag and arranged in the form of a diamond, was discovered at a relatively high galactic latitude. Photometry, spectral classification and radial velocities were collected. The stars have similar spectral types and radial velocities, indicating that the system is probably an evaporating small cluster in the Galactic halo.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/253.3.545
- Bibcode:
- 1991MNRAS.253..545B
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Photometry;
- Stellar Magnitude;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Virgo Galactic Cluster;
- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Radial Velocity;
- Stellar Structure;
- Astrophysics