Forward and Back: Kinematics of the Palomar 5 Tidal Tails
Abstract
The tidal tails of Palomar 5 (Pal 5) have been the focus of many spectroscopic studies in an attempt to identify individual stars lying along the stream and characterise their kinematics. The well-studied trailing tail has been explored out to a distance of 15^\text{o} from the cluster centre, while less than four degrees have been examined along the leading tail. In this paper, we present results of a spectroscopic study of two fields along the leading tail that we have observed with the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian telescope. One of these fields lies roughly 7^\text{o} along the leading tail, beyond what has been previously been explored spectroscopically. Combining our measurements of kinematics and line strengths with Pan-STARRS1 photometric data and Gaia EDR3 astrometry, we adopt a probabilistic approach to identify 16 stars with high probability of belonging to the Pal 5 stream. Eight of these stars lie in the outermost field and their sky positions confirm the presence of ``fanning'' in the leading arm. We also revisit previously-published radial velocity studies and incorporate Gaia EDR3 astrometry to remove interloping field stars. With a final sample of 109 {\it bona fide} Pal 5 cluster and tidal stream stars, we characterise the 3D kinematics along the the full extent of the system. We provide this catalogue for future modeling work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2202.04548,
title = {Forward and Back: Kinematics of the Palomar 5 Tidal Tails},
author = {Pete B. Kuzma and Annette M. N. Ferguson and Anna Lisa Varri and Michael J. Irwin and Edouard J. Bernard and Eline Tolstoy and Jorge Peñarrubia and Daniel B. Zucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04548},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. The extended version of Table 4 is available as an ancillery file, and will be supplementary material in MNRAS