Description
We carried our a radial velocity survey for spectroscopic binaries in the low-density globular cluster NGC 5053. Our sample contains a total of 77 cluster member giant and subgiant stars with visual magnitudes of 14.5-18.6. Of These 77 stars, 66 stars have on average of 3-4 measurements with a total of 236 velocities. A typical velocity error per measurement is 13km/s. The stars in our sample are spatially distributed from the cluster center out to 10arcmin in radius (4.5 core radii). Among theses 66 stars with multiple velocity measurements, we discovered 6 spectroscopic binary candidates.
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