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2008AJ....135.2264G - Astron. J., 135, 2264-2278 (2008/June-0)

WIYN open cluster study. XXXII. Stellar radial velocities in the old open cluster NGC 188.

GELLER A.M., MATHIEU R.D., HARRIS H.C. and McCLURE R.D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the results of our ongoing radial-velocity (RV) survey of the old (7 Gyr) open cluster NGC 188. Our WIYN 3.5 m data set spans a time baseline of 11 years, a magnitude range of 12 ≤ V ≤ 16.5 (1.18-0.94 M), and a 1° diameter region on the sky. With the addition of a Domain Astrophysical Observatory data set we extend our bright limit to V = 10.8 and, for some stars, extend our time baseline to 35 years. Our magnitude limits include solar-mass main-sequence stars, subgiants, giants, and blue stragglers (BSs), and our spatial coverage extends radially to 17 pc (∼13 core radii). For the WIYN data we present a detailed description of our data reduction process and a thorough analysis of our measurement precision of 0.4 km/s for narrow-lined stars. We have measured radial velocities for 1046 stars in the direction of NGC 188, and have calculated RV membership probabilities for stars with ≥3 measurements, finding 473 to be likely cluster members. We detect 124 velocity-variable cluster members, all of which are likely to be dynamically hard-binary stars. Using our single member stars, we find an average cluster radial velocity of -42.36±0.04 km/s. We use our precise RV and proper-motion membership data to greatly reduce field-star contamination in our cleaned color-magnitude diagram, from which we identify six stars of note that lie far from a standard single-star isochrone. We present a detailed study of the spatial distribution of cluster-member populations, and find the binaries to be centrally concentrated, providing evidence for the presence of mass segregation in NGC 188. We observe the BSs to populate a bimodal spatial distribution that is not centrally concentrated, suggesting that we may be observing two populations of BSs in NGC 188, including a centrally concentrated distribution as well as a halo population. Finally, we find NGC 188 to have a global RV dispersion of 0.64±0.04 km/s, which may be inflated by up to 0.23 km/s from unresolved binaries. When corrected for unresolved binaries, the NGC 188 RV dispersion has a nearly isothermal radial distribution. We use this mean-corrected velocity dispersion to derive a virial mass of 2300±460 M.

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Journal keyword(s): binaries: spectroscopic - blue stragglers - open clusters and associations: individual: NGC188

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/AJ/135/2264): table2.dat>

CDS comments: Table 2, col. IDSA: stars IV-NNN are not part of the original publication (Sandage, 1962ApJ...135..333S), but they can be found in SIMBAD under the other IDs given in the table.

Simbad objects: 1054

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