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Space Telescope Observations of Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

John N. Bahcall*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Abstract

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Six proposed Space Telescope programs involving globular clusters are described. The projects appropriate for galactic clusters are: the detection of white dwarfs, the study of the faint end of the Population II luminosity function, the measurement of mass segregation, and the search for a cusp in the density distribution caused by core collapse or by a massive black hole. The two programs that involve extragalactic globular clusters are: the determination of the luminosity function of clusters around different galaxies and the measurement of tidal radii of clusters surrounding elliptical galaxies.

Type
June 1: The Dynamics of Star Clusters: Future Prospects
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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