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Using photometry and proper motions from Gaia Early Data Release 3, we detect a 45 degree-long trailing stellar debris stream associated with the old, metal-poor globular cluster NGC 7089. With a width on the order of 100 pc, the extended…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 Carl J. Grillmair

Tidal streams of globular clusters are ideal tracers of the Galactic gravitational potential. Compared to the few known, complex and diffuse dwarf-galaxy streams, they are kinematically cold, have thin morphologies and are abundant in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 A. H. W. Küpper , E. Balbinot , A. Bonaca , K. V. Johnston , D. W. Hogg , P. Kroupa , B. X. Santiago

The origins of most stellar streams in the Milky Way are unknown. With improved proper motions provided by Gaia EDR3, we show that the orbits of 23 Galactic stellar streams are highly clustered in orbital phase space. Based on their…

Thanks to the precise astrometric measurements of proper motions by the Gaia mission, a new tidal stellar stream has been discovered in the northern hemisphere. The distribution of star count shows that the stream is approximately $80$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Changqing Luo , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yujiao Yang

Context. Several dynamically cold streams have been associated with certain globular clusters (GCs) based on orbital energies and angular momenta. Some of these streams are surprisingly far apart from their progenitors and one such pair is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Yong Yang , Jing-Kun Zhao , Miho N. Ishigaki , Masashi Chiba , Cheng-Qun Yang , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Xian-Hao Ye , Gang Zhao

We study the outer regions of the Milky Way globular cluster NGC6981 from publicly available $BV$ photometry and new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) observations, both reaching nearly 4 mag below the cluster main sequence (MS) turnoff. While the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 A. E. Piatti , M. F. Mestre , J. A. Carballo-Bello , D. D. Carpintero , C. Navarrete , M. D. Mora , C. Cenzano

During the past 20 years, numerous stellar streams have been discovered in both the Milky Way and the Local Group. These streams have been tidally torn from orbiting systems, which suggests that most of them should roughly trace the orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-18 Daniele S. M. Fantin

We reconsider the case for the association of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph), using Gaia DR2 data. We use RR Lyrae to trace the stream in 6D and we select clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 M. Bellazzini , R. Ibata , K. Malhan , N. Martin , B. Famaey , G. Thomas

We use deep imaging from the Dark Energy Camera to explore the peripheral regions of nine globular clusters in the outer halo of the Milky Way. Apart from Whiting 1 and NGC 7492, which are projected against the Sagittarius stream, we see no…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Shumeng Zhang , Dougal Mackey , Gary Da Costa

We aim to measure the proper motion along the Sagittarius stream that is the missing piece to determine its full 6D phase space coordinates. We conduct a blind search of over-densities in proper motion from Gaia DR2 in a broad region around…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 T. Antoja , P. Ramos , C. Mateu , A. Helmi , F. Anders , C. Jordi , J. A. Carballo-Bello

Streams of stars from captured dwarf galaxies and dissolved globular clusters are identifiable through the similarity of their orbital parameters, a fact that remains true long after the streams have dispersed spatially. We calculate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicholas W. Borsato , Sarah L. Martell , Jeffrey D. Simpson

We present a study of the kinematics of 101 stars observed with VIMOS around Whiting1, a globular cluster embedded in the Sagittarius tidal stream. The obtained velocity distribution shows the presence of two wraps of that halo substructure…

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

Stellar tidal streams are a key tracer of galaxy evolution and have the potential to provide an indirect means for tracing dark matter. For the Local Group, many diffuse substructures have been identified and their link to galaxy evolution…

The Magellanic Stream (MS) has long been known to contain multiple H I strands and corresponding stellar populations are beginning to be discovered. Combining a sample of 17 stars from the H3 ("Hectochelle in the Halo at High Resolution")…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Dennis Zaritsky , Vedant Chandra , Charlie Conroy , Ana Bonaca , Phillip A. Cargile , Rohan P. Naidu

Globular clusters are prone to lose stars while moving around the Milky Way. These stars escape the clusters and are distributed throughout extended envelopes or tidal tails. However, such extra-tidal structures are not observed in all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Andrés E. Piatti

We present a panoramic map of the stellar streams of the Milky Way based upon astrometric and photometric measurements from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. In this first contribution, we concentrate on the halo at heliocentric distances beyond 5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Khyati Malhan , Rodrigo A. Ibata , Nicolas F. Martin

We study the outer regions of the Milky Way globular cluster NGC6809 based on Dark Energy Camera (DECam) observations, which reach nearly 6 mag below the cluster main sequence (MS) turnoff. In order to unveil its fainter outermost…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Andrés E. Piatti

We present DECam imaging for the peculiar Galactic globular clusters NGC1851, NGC1904 (M79), NGC2298 and NGC2808. Our deep photometry reveals that all the clusters have an important contribution of stars beyond their King tidal radii and…

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