Revisit NGC 5466 Tidal Stream with $Gaia$, SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST
Abstract
By mining the data from EDR3, SDSS/SEGUE DR16 and LAMOST DR8, 11 member stars of the NGC 5466 tidal stream are detected and 7 of them are newly identified. To reject contaminators, a variety of cuts are applied in sky position, color-magnitude diagram, metallicity, proper motion and radial velocity. We compare our data to a mock stream generated by modeling the cluster's disruption under a smooth Galactic potential plus the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The concordant trends in phase-space between the model and observations imply that the stream might have been perturbed by LMC. The two most distant stars among 11 detected members trace the stream's length to of sky, supporting and extending the previous length of . Given that NGC 5466 is so distant and potentially has a longer tail than previously thought, we expect that NGC 5466 tidal stream could be a useful tool in constraining the Milky Way gravitational field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.13414,
title = {Revisit NGC 5466 Tidal Stream with $Gaia$, SDSS/SEGUE and LAMOST},
author = {Yong Yang and Jing-Kun Zhao and Miho N. Ishigaki and Jian-Zhao Zhou and Cheng-Qun Yang and Xiang-Xiang Xue and Xian-Hao Ye and Gang Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13414},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
accepted for publication in MNRAS