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Using the example of the tidal stream of the Milky Way globular cluster Palomar 5 (Pal 5), we demonstrate how observational data on streams can be efficiently reduced in dimensionality and modeled in a Bayesian framework. Our approach…

Using Data Release 4 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we have applied an optimal contrast, matched filter technique to trace the trailing tidal tail of the globular cluster Palomar 5 to a distance of 18.5 degrees from the center of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Grillmair , O. Dionatos

Sloan Digital Sky Survey data for the field of the globular cluster Pal 5 reveal the existence of a long massive stream of tidal debris spanning an arc of 10 degrees on the sky. Pal 5 thus provides an outstanding example for tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Odenkirchen , E. K. Grebel , W. Dehnen , H. -W. Rix , C. M. Rockosi , H. Newberg , B. Yanny

Thin stellar streams, formed from the tidal disruption of globular clusters, are important gravitational tools, sensitive to both global and small-scale properties of dark matter. The Palomar 5 stellar stream (Pal 5) is an exemplar stream…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-06 Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Cecilia Mateu , Giuliano Iorio , Sarah Pearson , Ana Bonaca , Vasily Belokurov

We present Subaru/FOCAS and Keck/DEIMOS medium-resolution spectroscopy of a tidally disrupting Milky Way (MW) globular cluster Palomar 5 and its tidal stream. The observed fields are located to cover an angular extent of $\sim 17$\arcdeg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Miho N. Ishigaki , Narae Hwang , Masashi Chiba , Wako Aoki

This paper presents an example where the morphology of a single stellar stream can be used to rule out a specific galactic potential form without the need for velocity information. We investigate the globular cluster Palomar5 (Pal 5), which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-01 Sarah Pearson , Andreas H. W. Küpper , Kathryn V. Johnston , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

We report the discovery of two well-defined tidal tails emerging from the sparse remote globular cluster Palomar 5. These tails stretch out symmetrically to both sides of the cluster in the direction of constant Galactic latitude and…

Using wide-field photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we recently showed that the Galactic globular cluster Palomar 5 is in the process of being tidally disrupted. Its tidal tails were initially detected in a 2.5 degree…

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…

The legacy imaging surveys for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project provides multiplecolor photometric data, which are about 2 mag deeper than the SDSS. In this study, we redetermine the fundamental properties for an old halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-08 Xin Xu , Hu Zou , Xu Zhou , Jundan Nie , Zhimin Zhou , Jun Ma , Tianmeng Zhang , Jiali Wang , Suijian Xue

Only in the Milky Way is it possible to conduct an experiment which uses stellar streams to detect low-mass dark matter subhaloes. In smooth and static host potentials, tidal tails of disrupting satellites appear highly symmetric. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Denis Erkal , Sergey E. Koposov , Vasily Belokurov

Pal 5 is a low mass, low velocity dispersion, globular cluster with spectacular tidal tails. We use the SDSS DR8 data to extend the density measurements of the trailing star stream to 23 degrees distance from the cluster, at which point the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. G. Carlberg , C. J. Grillmair , Nathan Hetherington

By means of direct N-body simulations and simplified numerical models, we study the formation and characteristics of the tidal tails around Palomar 5, along its orbit in the Milky Way potential. Unlike previous findings, we are able to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Paola Di Matteo , Marco Montuori , Misha Haywood

The globular cluster Palomar 5 (Pal 5) is in the process of being tidally shredded as it orbits the Milky Way. Its core is currently at a heliocentric distance of ~21 kpc, near apogalacticon (~18 kpc), and it reaches ~5-7 kpc at…

We have derived a new photographic photometry and proper motions for 20000 stars with completeness to V = 18 in the direction of galactic center at the intermediate latitude (l = 3 deg,b = 47 deg; alpha(1950)=15h 18m, delta(1950) = +02deg…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Ojha , O. Bienayme , A. C. Robin , V. Mohan

We utilize the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 to investigate the previously undetected faint extension of the Palomar 5 stellar stream. By applying the HDBSCAN clustering algorithm, we identify stream members and successfully extend the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Yun-Ao Xiao , Hu Zou , Lu Feng , Wei-Jian Guo , Niu Li , Wen-Xiong Li , Shu-Fei Liu , Gaurav Singh , Ji-Peng Sui , Jia-Li Wang , Sui-Jian Xue

We present a proper motion and CCD photometric study of stars in the distant halo globular cluster Palomar 13. The absolute proper motion of Pal 13 with respect to the background galaxies, derived from moderate scale photographic plates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. H. Siegel , S. R. Majewski , K. M. Cudworth , M. Takamiya

We explore constraints on the Milky Way dark matter halo oblateness using three stellar streams from globular clusters NGC 3201, M68, and Palomar 5. Previous constraints on the gravitational potential from dynamical equilibrium of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-08 Carles G. Palau , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

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 detected extended, curved stellar tidal tails emanating from the sparse, disrupting halo globular cluster Pal 5, which cover 10 degrees on the sky. These streams allow us to infer the orbit of Pal 5 and to ultimately constrain the…

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