# The VMC survey. XXVIII. Improved measurements of the proper motion of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae

@article{Niederhofer2018TheVS,
title={The VMC survey. XXVIII. Improved measurements of the proper motion of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae},
author={Florian Niederhofer and Maria-Rosa L. Cioni and Stefano Rubele and Thomas Schmidt and Kenji Bekki and Richard de Grijs and James P. Emerson and Valentin D. Ivanov and J M Oliveira and Monika G. Petr-Gotzens and Vincenzo Ripepi and Ning-Chen Sun and Jacco Th. van Loon},
journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
year={2018},
volume={612}
}
• Published 23 January 2018
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• Astronomy and Astrophysics
We use deep multi-epoch PSF photometry taken with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) to measure and analyze the proper motions of stars within the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc, NGC 104). The observations are part of the ongoing near-infrared VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC). The data analyzed here corresponds to one VMC tile and covers a total sky area of 1.77 deg^2. Absolute proper motions with respect to ~9070 background galaxies…
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