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The Not So Extraordinary Globular Cluster M31 037 - B327

Judith Cohen

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0610863

Abstract

A velocity dispersion has been measured for the luminous globular cluster M31 037 - B327, claimed to be the most massive star cluster in the Local Group and to be a young ``super star cluster'' that has survived to an old age. M31 037 - B327 has a mass comparable to that of M31 G1, but not significantly larger. Although near the upper end for the mass distribution of globular clusters, it is not an unprecedented extraordinary object.

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