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The Dynamics of the M87 Globular Cluster System*

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,,Citation Judith G. Cohen and Anton Ryzhov 1997ApJ486 230DOI 10.1086/304518

Judith G. Cohen

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Palomar Observatory, Mail Stop 105-24, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125

Anton Ryzhov

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Palomar Observatory, Mail Stop 105-24, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125

Current address: Department of Physics, Box 351560, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1560

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  1. Received1997 January 24
  2. Accepted1997 April 3
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0004-637X/486/1/230

Abstract

We present the results from a study of the dynamics of the system of globular clusters around M87. After eliminating foreground galactic stars and background galaxies, we end up with a sample of 205 bona fide M87 globular clusters for which we have radial velocities determined from multislit spectra taken with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph on the Keck Telescope. We find that the mean radial velocity of the M87 globular clusters agrees well with that of M87 itself and that the velocity histogram is well represented by a Gaussian distribution. We find evidence for rotation in the globular cluster system. We find that the observed velocity dispersion of the M87 globular cluster system increases with radius from 270 km s-1 atr = 9 kpc to ≈ 400 km s-1 atr = 40 kpc. The inferred mass-to-light ratio in solar units increases from 5 atr = 9 kpc to ≈ 30 atr = 40 kpc withM(r) ~r1.7. The long-slit optical spectroscopy near the center of M87 and the recent analysis of theROSAT X-ray data are in good agreement with this analysis near the nucleus and in the outer parts of M87, respectively.

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  • Based in large part on observations obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated jointly by the California Institute of Technology and the University of California.

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