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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…

We have measured Keck/HIRES radial velocities for 30 candidate red giants in the direction of Palomar 13: an object traditionally cataloged as a compact, low-luminosity globular cluster. From a sample of 21 confirmed members, we find a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Cote , S. G. Djorgovski , Georges Meylan , S. Castro , J. K. McCarthy

M3 and M13 are Galactic globular clusters with previous reports of surrounding stellar halos. We present the results of a search for members and extratidal cluster halo stars within and outside of the tidal radius of these clusters in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Colin A. Navin , Sarah L. Martell , Daniel B. Zucker

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 report the discovery of tidal tails around the Galactic globular cluster NGC 7492, based on the Data Release 1 of the Pan-STARRS 1 survey. The tails were detected with a version of the matched filter technique applied to the $(g-r,r)$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Camila Navarrete , Vasily Belokurov , Sergey E. Koposov

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

We present the stellar main sequence luminosity function (LF) of the disrupted, low-mass, low-concentration globular cluster Palomar 5 and its well-defined tidal tails, which emanate from the cluster as a result of its tidal interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Koch , E. K. Grebel , M. Odenkirchen , D. Martinez-Delgado , J. A. R. Caldwell

We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy and CFHT/MegaCam photometry for the Milky Way globular cluster Palomar 13. We triple the number of spectroscopically confirmed members, including many repeat velocity measurements. Palomar 13 is the only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. D. Bradford , M. Geha , R. Munoz , F. A. Santana , J. D. Simon , P. Cote , P. B. Stetson , E. Kirby , S. G. Djorgovski

Context. Nearly 150 tidal streams are known in the Milky Way, but full phase-space information exists for only a few. RR Lyrae stars (RRL), as standard candles, provide a powerful way to probe these structures, yet they have been identified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Bruno Domínguez , Cecilia Mateu , Pau Ramos , Guillaume F. Thomas

This research presents unsupervised machine learning and statistical techniques to detect and analyze tidal tails in five open clusters, BH 164, Alessi 2, NGC 2281, NGC 2354, and M67, with ages ranging from 60 Myr to 4 Gyr, using Gaia DR3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Ira Sharma , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam

Palomar 5 is one of the sparsest star clusters in the Galactic halo and is best-known for its spectacular tidal tails, spanning over 20 degrees across the sky. With N-body simulations we show that both distinguishing features can result…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-06 Mark Gieles , Denis Erkal , Fabio Antonini , Eduardo Balbinot , Jorge Peñarrubia

Context. Open clusters that emerged from the star forming regions as gravitationally bound structures are subjected to star evaporation, ejection, and tidal forces throughout the rest of their lives. Consequently they form tidal tails that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-30 Janez Kos

We carry out a search for tidal tails in a sample of open clusters with known relatively elongated morphology. We identify the member stars of these clusters from the precise astrometric and deep photometric data from $Gaia$ Early Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Souradeep Bhattacharya , Khushboo K. Rao , Manan Agarwal , Shanmugha Balan , Kaushar Vaidya

We report the discovery of two well-defined tidal tails emerging from the Hyades star cluster. The tails were detected in Gaia DR2 data by selecting cluster members in the three-dimensional galactocentric cylindrical velocity space. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Stefan Meingast , João Alves

We present the results of fitting a flexible stellar stream density model to a collection of thirteen streams around the Milky Way, using photometric data from DES, DECaLS, and Pan-STARRS. We construct density maps for each stream and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Jeffrey M. Patrick , Sergey E. Koposov , Matthew G. Walker

We report the discovery of tidal structures around the intermediate-aged ($\sim$ 700--800~Myr), nearby ($\sim85$~pc) star cluster Coma Berenices. The spatial and kinematic grouping of stars is determined with the {\it Gaia} DR2 parallax and…

We present results on the basis of Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) DR8 astrometric and photometric data sets of the Milky Way globular cluster Pal 13. Because of its relative small size and mass, there has not been yet a general…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Andrés E. Piatti , José G. Fernández-Trincado

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 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 present the main sequence luminosity function of the tidally disrupted globular cluster Palomar 5 and its tidal tails. For this work we analyzed imaging data obtained with the Wide Field Camera at the INT (La Palma) and data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Koch , M. Odenkirchen , E. K. Grebel , D. Martinez-Delgado , J. A. R. Caldwell