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We investigate the formation of tidal features, such as tidal tails, streams, and shell-like structures, composed of stars stripped from satellites within galaxy clusters. For this, we use multiresolution cosmological $N-$body simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 Kyungwon Chun , Jihye Shin , Jongwan Ko , Rory Smith , So-myoung Park , Songhee Nam

In the last decade, observational studies have shown the existence of tidal streams in the outer part of many galactic globular clusters. The most striking examples of clusters with well defined tidal tails are represented by Palomar 5 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Di Matteo , R. Capuzzo Dolcetta , P. Miocchi , M. Montuori

We apply for the first time the Monte Carlo star cluster modeling method to study tidal tail and stellar stream formation from globular clusters, assuming a circular orbit in a smooth Galactic potential. Approximating energetically unbound…

Star clusters can be found in galaxy mergers, not only in central regions, but also in the tidal debris. In both the Eastern and Western tidal tails of NGC 3256 there are dozens of young star clusters, confirmed by their blue colors and…

(Abbreviated) We investigate the dynamical mechanisms responsible for producing tidal tails from dwarf satellites using N-body simulations. We identify two important dynamical co-conspirators: 1) the points where the attractive force of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Hwan Choi , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

We present N-body simulations of realistic globular clusters containing initial mass function in the galaxy to study effects of tidal field systematically on the properties of outer parts of globular clusters. Using NBODY6 which takes into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kang Hwan Lee , Hyung Mok Lee , Hwankyung Sung

High-redshift clusters of galaxies show an over-abundance of spirals by a factor of 2-3, and the corresponding under-abundance of S0 galaxies, relative to the nearby clusters. This morphological evolution can be explained by tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Oleg Y. Gnedin

We report on observational evidence of an extra-tidal clumpy structure around NGC 288 from an homogeneous coverage of a large area with the Pan-STARRS PS1 database. The extra-tidal star population has been disentangled from that of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-25 Andrés E. Piatti

Understanding the evolution of stellar clusters in an evolving tidal field is critical for studying the disruption of stellar clusters in a cosmological context. We systematically characterise the response of stellar clusters to tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 Jeremy J. Webb , Marta Reina-Campos , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

Stars that escape globular clusters form tidal tails that are predominantly shaped by the global distribution of mass in the Galaxy, but also preserve a historical record of small-scale perturbations. Using deep $grz$ photometry from…

We consider the dynamical evolution of small-scale substructure in clusters within two extreme alternate scenarios for their possible origin: 1) the accretion of groups (or small clusters) on quasi-radial orbits, and 2) the merger of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Guillermo González-Casado , Gary A. Mamon , Eduard Salvador-Solé

Super star clusters are young, compact star clusters found in the central regions of interacting galaxies. Recently, they have also been reported to preferentially form in certain tidal tails, but not in others. In this paper, we have used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Maybhate , J. Masiero , J. E. Hibbard , J. C. Charlton , C. Palma , K. A. Knierman , J. English

As a stellar group forms within its parent molecular cloud, new members first appear in the deep interior. These overcrowded stars continually diffuse outward to the cloud boundary, and even beyond. Observations have so far documented only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-21 Steven W. Stahler

We have searched for compact stellar structures within 17 tidal tails in 13 different interacting galaxies using F606W- and F814W- band images from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The sample of…

We present an extensive parameter survey to study the influence of halo mass profiles on the development of tidal tails in interacting disk galaxies. We model the galaxies using a fixed exponential disk with a central bulge and vary the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John Dubinski , J. Christopher Mihos , Lars Hernquist

We study the formation of tidal tails in pairs of merging disk galaxies with structural properties motivated by current theories of cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies. In a recent study, Dubinski, Mihos & Hernquist (1996) showed that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-01 Volker Springel , Simon D. M. White

In this work we present results of the first in-depth analysis of extra-tidal mock stars of Milky Way globular clusters recently generated by Grondin et al. (2024). Particularly, we selected a sample of globular clusters with a general…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrés E. Piatti

We report the discovery of tidal tails around the two outer halo globular clusters, Eridanus and Palomar 15, based on $gi$-band images obtained with DECam at the CTIO 4-m Blanco Telescope. The tidal tails are among the most remote stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-25 G. C. Myeong , Helmut Jerjen , Dougal Mackey , Gary S. Da Costa

We provide a detailed analysis on tidal tails of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272). We first discover clear extra-tidal structures with slight S-shape near the cluster. This inspires us to examine the existence of its long tidal tails. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Yong Yang , Jing-Kun Zhao , Xin-Zhe Tang , Xian-Hao Ye , Gang Zhao

Among those objects formed out of collisional debris during galaxy mergers, the prominent gaseous accumulations observed near the tip of some long tidal tails are the most likely to survive long enough to form genuine recycled galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pierre-Alain Duc , Frederic Bournaud , Frederic Masset