Journal article
A NOTE ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PALOMAR 2
Abstract
The distance and structural properties of the remote anticenter globular cluster Palomar 2 are deduced from a preliminary analysis of a deep V photographic plate of the cluster. Its apparent distance modulus is estimated to be (n - M)V = 20.1 plus or minus 0.4 with a heavy foreground reddening E(B - V) = 1.27 plus or minus 0.07, and hence a galactocentric distance of 26 kpc. New star counts from the plate material are made to derive its tidal …
Authors
Harris WE
Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 92, No. 545, pp. 43–45
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Publication Date
February 1980
DOI
10.1086/130611
ISSN
1538-3873