Hubble space telescope evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster M15. I. STIS spectroscopy and WFPC2 photometry

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 6 1764, 2002, Pages 3255-3269

  Van der Marel, Roeland P ^a   Gerssen, Joris ^a   Guhathakurta, Puragra ^b,c   Peterson, Ruth C ^c,e   Gebhardt, Karl ^d  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^e Astrophysical Advances   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: individual (M15); Stars: kinematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042497324     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344583     Document Type: Article

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