The Extended Tidal Tails of Palomar 5: Tracers of the Galactic Potential

Brian Yanny (Fermilab); Constance M. Rockosi (U. Washington); Eva K. Grebel; Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA); Heidi Jo Newberg (RPI); Michael Odenkirchen; Walter Dehnen (AIP)

arxiv: astro-ph/0301086 · v1 · submitted 2003-01-06 · 🌌 astro-ph

The Extended Tidal Tails of Palomar 5: Tracers of the Galactic Potential

Michael Odenkirchen , Eva K. Grebel , Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA) , Walter Dehnen (AIP) , Heidi Jo Newberg (RPI) , Constance M. Rockosi (U. Washington) , Brian Yanny (Fermilab) This is my paper

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We detected extended, curved stellar tidal tails emanating from the sparse, disrupting halo globular cluster Pal 5, which cover 10 degrees on the sky. These streams allow us to infer the orbit of Pal 5 and to ultimately constrain the Galactic potential at its location.

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