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We investigate the epicyclic motion of stars escaping from star clusters. Using streaklines, we visualise the path of escaping stars and show how epicyclic motion leads to over- and underdensities in tidal tails of star clusters moving on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas H. W. Kuepper , Richard R. Lane , Douglas C. Heggie

We present the first results of the Multi-Instrument Kinematic Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters, a project aimed at exploring the internal kinematics of a representative sample of Galactic globular clusters from the radial velocity of…

We present a novel method combining existing cosmological simulations and orbital integration to study the hierarchical assembly of globular cluster (GC) populations in the Milky Way (MW). Our method models the growth and evolution of GC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Pierre Boldrini , Paola Di Matteo , Chervin Laporte , Oscar Agertz , Sergey Khoperskov , Giulia Pagnini

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

Globular clusters are large collections of old stars that are orbiting the core of a galaxy. Our Milky Way Galaxy has about 160 known clusters, with perhaps more to be discovered. We first accumulated the necessary parameters for 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-22 Hambeleleni Ndiyavala , Christo Venter , Petrus Paulus Kruger

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…

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

Aims. We estimate the dynamical evolution of the Globular Clusters interaction with the Galactic centre that dynamically changed in the past. Methods. We simulated the orbits of 147 globular clusters over 10 Gyr lookback time using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Maryna Ishchenko , Margaryta Sobolenko , Dana Kuvatova , Taras Panamarev , Peter Berczik

The Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) shows a rare increase in its velocity dispersion profile at large radii, indicative of energetic, yet bound, stars at large radii dominating the velocity dispersion and, potentially, of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-06 Richard R. Lane , Andreas H. W. Küpper , Douglas C. Heggie

Using the data from Gaia (ESA) Data Release 2 we performed the orbital calculations of globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way. To explore possible close encounters (or collisions) between the GCs, using our own developed high-order…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 I. V. Chemerynska , M. V. Ishchenko , M. O. Sobolenko , S. A. Khoperskov , P. P. Berczik

As ancient, gravitationally bound stellar populations, globular clusters are abundant, vibrant laboratories characterized by high frequencies of dynamical interactions coupled to complex stellar evolution. Using surface brightness and…

We present a study of the effects of collisional dynamics on the formation and detectability of cold tidal streams. A semi-analytical model for the evolution of the stellar mass function was implemented and coupled to a fast stellar stream…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-24 Eduardo Balbinot , Mark Gieles

We outline a method to measure the detailed chemical composition of extragalactic (unresolved) globular clusters (GCs) from echelle spectra of their integrated light. Our goal is to use this method to measure abundance patterns of GCs in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Bernstein , A. McWilliam

We detect a tidal stream generated by the globular cluster NGC 3201 extending over ~140 degrees on the sky, using the Gaia DR2 data, with the maximum likelihood method we presented previously to study the M68 tidal stream. Most of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-13 C. G. Palau , J. Miralda-Escudé

We present 25 cosmological zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies in the `MOdelling Star cluster population Assembly In Cosmological Simulations within EAGLE' (E-MOSAICS) project. E-MOSAICS couples a detailed physical model for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-17 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Joel L. Pfeffer , Robert A. Crain , Nate Bastian

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…

A method to search for tidal streams and to fit their orbits based on maximum likelihood is presented and applied to the Gaia data. Tests of the method are performed showing how a simulated stream produced by tidal stripping of a star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 C. G. Palau , J. Miralda-Escudé

In this study, we investigate the contribution of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to the gamma-ray excess observed in the Galactic Center by analyzing data from high-resolution direct N-body simulations of six globular clusters (GCs) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Dana Kuvatova , Taras Panamarev , Maryna Ishchenko , Anton Gluchshenko , Peter Berczik

Globular clusters (GCs) are powerful tracers of the galaxy assembly process, and have already been used to obtain a detailed picture of the progenitors of the Milky Way. Using the E-MOSAICS cosmological simulation of a (34.4 Mpc)$^3$ volume…

The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Pete B. Kuzma , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Jorge Peñarrubia