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Large-field multi-color images of 20 galactic globular clusters are used to investigate the presence of tidal tails around these stellar systems. Field and cluster stars are sorted with the help of color-magnitude diagrams, and star-count…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Leon , G. Meylan , F. Combes

We present the results of a spectroscopic survey performed in the outskirts of the globular cluster NGC1851 with VIMOS@VLT. The radial velocities of 107 stars in a region between 12' and 33' around the cluster have been derived. We clearly…

{\omega} Centauri, the remnant nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy, is a unique laboratory for studying complex stellar populations. The recently discovered Fimbulthul stream provides a fossil record of its ongoing tidal dissolution. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Shiru Zheng , Baitian Tang , Long Wang , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Ruoyun Huang , Xia Li , XiaoDong Li

CCD vby Stroemgren photometry of a statistically complete sample of red giants and stars in the main sequence turn-off region in omega Centauri has been used to analyse the apparently complex star formation history of this cluster. From the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Michael Hilker , Tom Richtler

We present spectroscopic evidence for tidal debris associated with the bulge globular cluster NGC 6569, based on medium-resolution (R ~ 11,000) Anglo-Australian Telescope spectra of 303 stars. Targets were selected using Blanco DECam Bulge…

We have derived from VIMOS spectroscopy the radial velocities for a sample of 71 stars selected from CFHT/Megacam photometry around the Galactic globular cluster NGC7492. In the resulting velocity distribution, it is possible to distinguish…

Based on the photometric survey of the inner region of the Centaurus cluster (Jerjen & Dressler 1997a) we measured redshifts for a deep, surface brightness limited sample of galaxies using the MEFOS multifibre spectrograph at the ESO 3.6m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Stein , H. Jerjen , M. Federspiel

Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) is the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way. It is thought to be the nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy because of its high mass and its complex stellar populations. To decipher its formation history…

$\omega$ Centauri, the most massive globular cluster in the Milky Way, has long been suspected to be the stripped nucleus of a dwarf galaxy that fell into the Galaxy a long time ago. There is considerable evidence for this scenario…

We present deep and accurate photometry (F435W, F625W, F658N) of the Galactic Globular Cluster Omega Cen collected with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We identified ~ 6,500 white dwarf…

By using high-resolution spectra acquired with FLAMES-GIRAFFE at the ESO/VLT, we measured radial and rotational velocities for 110 Blue Straggler stars (BSSs) in Omega Centauri, the globular cluster-like stellar system harboring the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Mucciarelli , L. Lovisi , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , B. Lanzoni , L. Monaco

Globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) have evolved under the gravitational potential of both Sgr dSph and the Milky Way. The effects of these potentials are most pronounced in the…

Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) is the Milky Way's most massive globular cluster and is likely the stripped nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy. In this paper, we analyze $\omega$ Cen's kinematics using data from oMEGACat, a comprehensive…

We report results on the radial velocity dispersion profile built out to the outskirts of NGC 4147, a Milky Way globular cluster with detected strong tidal tails. The cluster was chosen to probe, from an observational point of view, recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-19 Andrés E. Piatti

We examine the outer structure of 12 Galactic globular clusters using star-count analyses. Deep, two-color, photographic photometry is used to select and count stars with colors and magnitudes consistent with cluster-specific,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. J. Grillmair , K. C. Freeman , M. Irwin , P. J. Quinn

We find a deficiency of binary stars moving on strongly retrograde Galactic orbits. No binary deficiencies are seen for U or W velocities, however. From theoretical analyses, we rule out preferential disruption of pre-existing binary stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bruce W. Carney , Luis A. Aguilar , David W. Latham , John B. Laird

We present the latitude-normalized radial velocity (vb) distribution of 3318 subsolar metallicity, V<13.5 stars from the Grid Giant Star Survey (GGSS) in Southern Hemisphere fields. The sample includes giants mostly within ~5 kpc from the…

The proper motions of stars in the outskirts of globular clusters are used to estimate cluster velocity dispersion profiles as far as possible within their tidal radii. We use individual color-magnitude diagrams to select high probability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Raymond G. Carlberg , Carl J. Grillmair

We present a multi-band photometric catalog of $\approx$ 1.7 million cluster members for a field of view of $\approx$ 2x2 degree across $\omega$ Cen. Photometry is based on images collected with the Dark Energy Camera on the 4m Blanco…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 A. Calamida , G. Strampelli , A. Rest , G. Bono , I. Ferraro , A. Saha , G. Iannicola , D. Scolnic , D. James , C. Smith , A. Zenteno

We present results of a search for optical counterparts of X-ray sources in and toward the globular cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The ACS data consist of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrienne M. Cool , Daryl Haggard , Tersi Arias , Michelle Brochmann , Jason Dorfman , April Gafford , Vivian White , Jay Anderson