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The Tidal Tails of the Ultra-Faint Globular Cluster Palomar 1
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Using the Optimal Filter Technique applied to Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry, we have found extended tails stretching about 1 degree (or several tens of half-light radii) from either side of the ultra-faint globular cluster Palomar 1. The tails contain roughly as many stars as does the cluster itself. Using deeper Hubble Space Telescope data, we see that the isophotes twist in a chacteristic S-shape on moving outwards from the cluster centre to the tails. We argue that the main mechanism forming the tails may be relaxation driven evaporation and that Pal 1 may have been accreted from a now disrupted dwarf galaxy ~500 Myr ago.<br />Comment: 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters Changes in v2: Merged previous figures 3 and 5 and slightly expanded discussion
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1007.2806
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00931.x