Ghosts of Milky Way’s past: the globular cluster ESO 37-1 (E 3)⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆

Author: de la Fuente Marcos R.   de la Fuente Marcos C.   Moni Bidin C.   Ortolani S.   Carraro G.  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1432-0746|581|issue|A13-A13

ISSN: 0004-6361

Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.581, Iss.issue, 2015-08, pp. : A13-A13

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Abstract

Context. In the Milky Way, most globular clusters are highly conspicuous objects that were found centuries ago. However, a few dozen of them are faint, sparsely populated systems that were identified largely during the second half of the past century. One of the faintest is ESO 37-1 (E 3) and as such it remains poorly studied, with no spectroscopic observations published so far although it was discovered in 1976.

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