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| Description of NGC 6266 |
Messier 62 (also known as M62 or NGC 6266) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered in 1771 by Charles Messier.
M62 is at a distance of about 22,500 light-years from Earth and measures some 100 light-years across. From studies conducted in the 1970s it is known that M62 contains the high number of 89 variable stars, many of them of the RR Lyrae type. The globular also contains a number of x-ray sources, thought to be close binary star systems, and millisecond pulsars in binary systems.
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Milone, A. P.
Helium and multiple populations in the massive globular cluster NGC 6266 (M 62)
2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 446, Issue 2, p.1672-1684
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Lapenna, E. et al.
Chemical Analysis of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in M62
2015, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 813, Issue 2, article id. 97, 13 pp.
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McNamara, Bernard J. et al.
A Search for an Intermediate-mass Black Hole in the Core of the Globular Cluster NGC 6266
2012, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 745, pag. 175
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