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http://dx.doi.org/10.5140/JASS.2004.21.3.181

DYNAMICAL SUBSTRUCTURES OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS I. M5  

Rhee, Jong-whan (Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University)
Sohn, Young-Jong (Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University, Center for Space Astrophysics, Yonsei University)
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Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences / v.21, no.3, 2004 , pp. 181-190 More about this Journal
Abstract
We use BV CCD images to study the dynamical substructure of the globular cluster M5. We investigate the radial variation of ellipticities and position angles using the stellar photometry and the IRAF ellipse task. We find that out to three times the half light radius $(r_h)$, the changes in ellipticities and position angles range in $0.05\~0.25$ and $75^{\circ}\~-75^{\circ}$, respectively. There are no significant discrepancy in the dynamical substructure beyond $r_h$ among the different giant populations. However, compared to the global dynamical substructure of M5, the inner $(<0.5r_h)$ substructure of the bright red giant and the horizontal branch populations show slightly different patterns. Especially, the discrepancy of the bright red giant population with respect to the global substructure, ranges up to 0.1 for the ellipticity and 1000 for the position angle.
Keywords
globular cluster; M5; dynamical substructure;
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