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Kinematics of the Galactic Globular Cluster System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

R. F. Webbink
R. F. Webbink*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois

Abstract

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Constraints on cluster kinematics proper motions, radial velocities and tidal radii are reviewed. Analysis of the cluster radial velocity distribution suggests a rotation law for the system in which the specific angular momentum is nearby independent of galactocentric distance, and the residual velocity dispersion is isotropic. However, the absence of severely tidally truncated clusters indicates that nearly radial orbits are absent from this distribution. The kinematic properties of the remote halo clusters remain largely indeterminate. Absolute proper motions measured directly with respect to background galaxies and quasars are needed to determine the kinematics of these objects, and also to elucidate the process of tidal stripping.

Type
Chapter II. Review Papers on 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. 49 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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