TY - JOUR
T1 - Absolute Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) of Distant Milky Way Globular Clusters
T2 - Galactocentric Space Velocities and the Milky Way Mass
AU - Sohn, Sangmo Tony
AU - Watkins, Laura L.
AU - Fardal, Mark A.
AU - Van Der Marel, Roeland P.
AU - Deason, Alis J.
AU - Besla, Gurtina
AU - Bellini, Andrea
N1 - Funding Information: We thank the anonymous referee for constructive feedback that helped improve the quality of this paper. Support for this work was provided by NASA through grants for programs GO-14235, GO-12564, and AR-15017 from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. A.D. is supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and STFC grant ST/P000541/1. Facility: HST (ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS). Publisher Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
PY - 2018/7/20
Y1 - 2018/7/20
N2 - We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) absolute proper motion (PM) measurements for 20 globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way (MW) halo at Galactocentric distances kpc, with a median per-coordinate PM uncertainty of 0.06 . Young and old halo GCs do not show systematic differences in their 3D Galactocentric velocities, derived from combining existing line-of-sight velocities. We confirm the association of Arp 2, Pal 12, Terzan 7, and Terzan 8 with Sgr. These clusters and NGC 6101 have tangential velocity km s-1, whereas all other clusters have < 200 km s-1. NGC 2419, the most distant GC in our sample, is also likely associated with the Sgr stream, whereas NGC 4147, NGC 5024, and NGC 5053 definitely are not. We use the distribution of orbital parameters derived using the 3D velocities to separate halo GCs that either formed within the MW or were accreted. We also assess the specific formation history of, e.g., Pyxis and Terzan 8. We constrain the MW mass via an estimator that considers the full 6D phase-space information for 16 of the GCs from to 40 kpc. The velocity dispersion anisotropy parameter . The enclosed mass , and the virial mass . These are consistent with, but on the high side among, recent mass estimates in the literature.
AB - We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) absolute proper motion (PM) measurements for 20 globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way (MW) halo at Galactocentric distances kpc, with a median per-coordinate PM uncertainty of 0.06 . Young and old halo GCs do not show systematic differences in their 3D Galactocentric velocities, derived from combining existing line-of-sight velocities. We confirm the association of Arp 2, Pal 12, Terzan 7, and Terzan 8 with Sgr. These clusters and NGC 6101 have tangential velocity km s-1, whereas all other clusters have < 200 km s-1. NGC 2419, the most distant GC in our sample, is also likely associated with the Sgr stream, whereas NGC 4147, NGC 5024, and NGC 5053 definitely are not. We use the distribution of orbital parameters derived using the 3D velocities to separate halo GCs that either formed within the MW or were accreted. We also assess the specific formation history of, e.g., Pyxis and Terzan 8. We constrain the MW mass via an estimator that considers the full 6D phase-space information for 16 of the GCs from to 40 kpc. The velocity dispersion anisotropy parameter . The enclosed mass , and the virial mass . These are consistent with, but on the high side among, recent mass estimates in the literature.
KW - (Galaxy:) globular clusters: general
KW - Galaxy: halo
KW - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics
KW - astrometry
KW - proper motions
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/aacd0b
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/aacd0b
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 862
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 52
ER -