Hubble space telescope evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster M15. II. Kinematic analysis and dynamical modeling

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 6 1764, 2002, Pages 3270-3288

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

^a STScI   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Astrophysical Advances   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: individual (M15) Stars: kinematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043132991     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344584     Document Type: Article

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