The structure of rapidly rotating relaxed globular clusters |
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| Authors: | John Kormendy S. P. S. Anand |
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| Affiliation: | (1) David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto, Richmond Hill, Ont., Canada;(2) Present address: Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., USA |
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| Abstract: | A model of rapidly rotating globular clusters is constructed assuming uniform angular velocity and a truncated Maxwellian distribution in the stellar velocities. Since the first-order theory developed by Woolley and Dickens becomes inaccurate for rapid rotation, a small-mass envelope is fitted to their models by the method of Monaghan and Roxburgh. A comparison is made of the critical values derived by the two methods. |
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