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arxiv: 1705.04324 · v1 · pith:QDQHVX2Hnew · submitted 2017-05-11 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

The discovery of tidal tails around the globular cluster NGC 7492 with Pan-STARRS1

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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 $(g-r,r)$ and $(g-i,i)$ color-magnitude diagrams. Tidal tails emerging from the cluster extend at least $\sim$3.5 degrees in the North-East to South-East direction, equivalent to $\sim1.5$ kpc in projected length.

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