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Catalog Service:
Proper motions and radial velocities in M15

Short name: J/ApJ/602/264
IVOA Identifier: ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/602/264
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.26093/cds/vizier.16020264
Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/602/264
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2005 Dec 28 16:13:06Z
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Description


Newly determined high-precision relative proper motions determined from the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 are used along with radial velocity measurements to determine the dynamical distance to the globular cluster M15. A comparison of the proper motion and radial velocity dispersions from a sample of 237 stars, located at an average radial distance of about 10" from the cluster center, yields a cluster distance of 9.98+/-0.47kpc. This distance agrees to within the stated errors to other distance estimates but places this object about 5% closer than the currently adopted value of 10.4kpc. Using this new distance, we estimate that RR Lyrae stars having [Fe/H]=-2.15 have a value of Mv(RR)=0.51+/-0.11. We also estimate that M15 has an age of about 13.2Gyr, which places it among the oldest of the Galactic globular clusters. From a comparison of the observed velocity dispersion with results from recent N-body calculations, we derive a total cluster mass for M15 of M_C_=4.5x10^5^M_{sun}_.

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Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]

Creators:
McNamara B.J.Harrison T.E.Baumgardt H.

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Status of This Resource

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Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service provides only public data.
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Updated: 2014 Nov 12 14:43:34Z
  • Created: 2005 Dec 28 16:13:06Z

This resource was registered on: 2005 Dec 28 16:13:06Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 Oct 21 00:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

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Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Catalog
Subject keywords:
  • Globular star clusters
  • Proper motions
  • Radial velocity
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/602/264 Literature Reference: 2004ApJ...602..264M

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TAP VizieR generic service(IsServedBy) ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP [Res. ID]
Conesearch service(IsServedBy)
J/A+AS/119/307 : Position in M15 (Le Campion+, 1996) ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/119/307 [Res. ID]

Data Coverage Information

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Wavebands covered:

  • Optical

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Available Service Interfaces

Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/602/264
Table Access Protocol - Auxiliary ServiceXX

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/602/264/table1 (Proper motion and radial velocity data)
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/602/264/table1?
Maximum search radius accepted: 180.0 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 50000
This service supports the VERB input parameter:
Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.


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