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Proper Motion Studies of Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Kyle M. Cudworth*
Affiliation:
Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, Williams Bay, WI 53191 USA

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Yerkes refractor plates of M3, M5, M13, M15, and M92 have yielded proper motions for a few hundred stars in each cluster with typical standard errors cent−1. Membership probabilities have been derived, leading to color-magnitude diagrams essentially free of field star contamination.

Type
August 30 Globular Clusters
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

References

M3: Cudworth, K.M.: 1979, Astron. J. 84, (Sept.) Google Scholar
M5: Cudworth, K.M.: 1979, Astron. J. (submitted).Google Scholar
M13: Cudworth, K.M. and Monet, D.G.: 1979, Astron. J. 84, 774.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cudworth, K.M.: (in preparation).Google Scholar
M15: Cudworth, K.M.: 1976, Astron. J. 81, 519.Google Scholar
M92: Cudworth, K.M.: 1976, Astron. J. 81, 975.CrossRefGoogle Scholar