Determination of the Proper Motions and Membership of the Globular Cluster M3 and of its Orbit in the Galaxy  

作　　者：Zhen－YuWu Jia－JiWang 等 

机构地区：[1]ShanghaiAstronomicalObservatory,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Shanghai200030 [2]NationalAstronomicalObservatories,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing100012

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics》2002年第3期216-225,共10页中国天文和天体物理学报（英文版）

基　　金：NKBRSF19990754 and National Natural Sciences Foundation under grant 19833010．

摘　　要：We examine 14 plates of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272) taken with the 40 cm refractor at the Sheshan station of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. The plates span over a period of about 77 years. The positions and absolute proper motions of eight stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue and of 49 stars in the Tycho-2 Catalogue are used as the reference frame. The astrometric reduction is made with the central overlapping principle. The absolute proper motions of 534 stars in a region of about 100' × 100' around the cluster are measured. With the new proper motion data the membership probabilities of the stars are determined. The average absolute proper motion obtained for the cluster is -0.06±0.30 mas yr-1 in R.A. and -2.6±0.30 mas yr-1 in Decl. By combining this result with the known distance and radial velocity of the cluster, we also obtained the Galactic orbit of M3 for a chosen three-component Galactic potential.We examine 14 plates of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272) taken with the 40 cm refractor at the Sheshan station of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. The plates span over a period of about 77 years. The positions and absolute proper motions of eight stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue and of 49 stars in the Tycho-2 Catalogue are used as the reference frame. The astrometric reduction is made with the central overlapping principle. The absolute proper motions of 534 stars in a region of about 100' × 100' around the cluster are measured. With the new proper motion data the membership probabilities of the stars are determined. The average absolute proper motion obtained for the cluster is -0.06±0.30 mas yr-1 in R.A. and -2.6±0.30 mas yr-1 in Decl. By combining this result with the known distance and radial velocity of the cluster, we also obtained the Galactic orbit of M3 for a chosen three-component Galactic potential.

关 键 词：globular clusters - star cluster: membership probabilities - star cluster: proper motions - star cluster: space motions - star cluster: Galactic orbits 

分 类 号：P156.3[天文地球—天文学]