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Context: This research presents unsupervised machine learning and statistical methods to identify and analyze tidal tails in open star clusters using data from the Gaia DR3 catalog. Aims: We aim to identify member stars and to detect and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Ira Sharma , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam , Henriette Wirth

Context: Tidal tails of open clusters are the result of stellar evaporation from the cluster through the Galactic potential and internal dynamics. With the recent availability of high-precision data, tidal tails are being detected for most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Dhanraj Risbud , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa

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 tidal tails around the high-latitude Galactic globular cluster NGC 5466 in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data. Neural networks are used to reconstruct the probability distribution of cluster stars in u,g,r,i and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans , M. J. Irwin , P. C. Hewett , M. I. Wilkinson

Context: Recent studies using Gaia data have reported tidal tail detections for tens to hundreds of open clusters. However, a comprehensive assessment of the reliability & completeness of these detections is lacking. Aims: This work aims to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Dhanraj Risbud , Pavel Kroupa , Wenjie Wu

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

I analyse the projected density distribution of member stars over a wide area surrounding 18 Galactic globular clusters using the photometric and astrometric information provided by the second data release of the Gaia mission. A 5D mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 A. Sollima

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

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 study the stellar content in the tidal tails of three nearby merging galaxies, NGC 520, NGC 2623, and NGC 3256, using BVI imaging taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The tidal tails in all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. J. Mulia , R. Chandar , B. C. Whitmore

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…

A rare multiple open cluster system has been analyzed using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry data. Using Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering and Bayesian-HDBSCAN, we identify a compact core consisting of seven known open clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Muhammad Akmal Husain , Ferdinand , Mochamad Ikbal Arifyanto , Muhammad Irfan Hakim

After their birth a significant fraction of all stars pass through the tidal threshold (prah) of their cluster of origin into the classical tidal tails. The asymmetry between the number of stars in the leading and trailing tails tests…

Understanding the exact extent and content of tidal tails of open clusters provide useful clues on how field stars populate the Milky Way. We reanalyse, using Gaia EDR3 data, the tails around the open cluster NGC 752. Compared to previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Henri M. J. Boffin , Tereza Jerabkova , Giacomo Beccari , Long Wang

Using photometry and proper motions from Gaia Data Release 2, we detect a 50 degree-long stream of about 70 stars extending westward from the halo globular cluster M5. Based on the similarities in distance, proper motions, inferred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Carl J. Grillmair

The most accurate current methods for determining the ages of open star clusters, stellar associations and stellar streams are based on isochrone fitting or the lithium depletion boundary. We propose another method for dating these objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 František Dinnbier , Pavel Kroupa , Ladislav Šubr , Tereza Jeřábková

We report the discovery of emerged tidal tails around open cluster IC 4756 ($\sim$ 1 Gyr) based on 644 members identified from {\it Gaia} EDR3. Three-dimensional spatial positions, two-dimensional tangential velocities $\left( x, y, z,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-18 Xianhao Ye , Jinkun Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Yong Yang , Gang Zhao

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…

Large-field multi-color images of 20 galactic globular clusters are used to investigate the presence of tidal tails around these stellar systems. Field and cluster stars are sorted with the help of color-magnitude diagrams, and star-count…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Leon , G. Meylan , F. Combes
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