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Astrometric Distances of Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Kyle Cudworth  and
Ruth C. Peterson
Kyle Cudworth
Affiliation:
Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago
Ruth C. Peterson
Affiliation:
Whipple Observatory, Smithsonian Institution

Abstract

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With high-precision radial velocities and proper motions, one can equate the proper motion and radial velocity dispersions to obtain astrometric distances independent of any standard candles. We discuss the method and the small distance it yields to M 22.

Type
Chapter VII. Poster Papers on Harlow Shapley and Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 126: The Harlow-Shapley Symposium on Globular Cluster Systems in Galaxies , 1988 , pp. 523 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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