2018ApJ...853...86B -
Astrophys. J., 853, 86-86 (2018/January-3)
The HST large programme on ω Centauri. II. Internal kinematics.
BELLINI A., LIBRALATO M., BEDIN L.R., MILONE A.P., VAN DER MAREL R.P., ANDERSON J., APAI D., BURGASSER A.J., MARINO A.F. and REES J.M.
Abstract (from CDS):
In this second installment of the series, we look at the internal kinematics of the multiple stellar populations of the globular cluster ω Centauri in one of the parallel Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fields, located at about 3.5 half-light radii from the center of the cluster. Thanks to the over 15 yr long baseline and the exquisite astrometric precision of the HST cameras, well-measured stars in our proper-motion catalog have errors as low as ∼10 µas yr–1, and the catalog itself extends to near the hydrogen-burning limit of the cluster. We show that second-generation (2G) stars are significantly more radially anisotropic than first-generation (1G) stars. The latter are instead consistent with an isotropic velocity distribution. In addition, 1G stars have excess systemic rotation in the plane of the sky with respect to 2G stars. We show that the six populations below the main-sequence (MS) knee identified in our first paper are associated with the five main population groups recently isolated on the upper MS in the core of cluster. Furthermore, we find both 1G and 2G stars in the field to be far from being in energy equipartition, with η1G=-0.007±0.026 for the former and η2G=0.074±0.029 for the latter, where η is defined so that the velocity dispersion σµ scales with stellar mass as σµ∝m^-η^. The kinematical differences reported here can help constrain the formation mechanisms for the multiple stellar populations in ω Centauri and other globular clusters. We make our astro-photometric catalog publicly available.
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Journal keyword(s):
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics - globular clusters: individual: NGC 5139 - proper motions - proper motions
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Tables 4+6: [BLB2018] NNNN N=5155 among (Nos 48-5745).
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