期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 505, 期 2, 页码 3033-3040出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1532
关键词
techniques: photometric; globular clusters: general; globular clusters: individual: NGC 6809
资金
- NSF's NOIRLab by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) [2019B-1003]
- US Department of Energy
- US National Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
- Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- National centre for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at University of Chicago
- Centre for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at the Ohio State University
- Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
- Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
- Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Argonne National Laboratory
- University of California at Santa Cruz
- University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Madrid
- University of Chicago
- University College London
- DES-Brazil Consortium
- University of Edinburgh
- Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC)
- Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen
- associated Excellence Cluster Universe
- University of Michigan
- NSF's NOIRLab
- University of Nottingham
- Ohio State University
- OzDES Membership Consortium
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Portsmouth
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
- University of Sussex
- Texas AM University
The study reveals that the outer structure of the NGC 6809 globular cluster shows some excess stars at opposite sides from the cluster center, which diminish soon after reaching approximately 0.32 degrees.
We study the outer regions of the Milky Way globular cluster NGC 6809 based on Dark Energy Camera observations, which reach nearly 6 mag below the cluster main-sequence (MS) turn-off. In order to unveil its fainter outermost structure, we built stellar density maps using cluster MS stars, once the contamination of field stars was removed from the cluster colour-magnitude diagram. We found that only the resulting stellar density map for the lightest stars exhibits some excesses of stars at opposite sides from the cluster centre that diminish soon thereafter at similar to 0.32 degrees.Studied globular clusters with apogalactic distances smaller than that of NGC 6809 (5.5 kpc) do not have observed tidal tails. The lack of detection of tidal tails in the studied inner globular cluster sample could be due to the reduced diffusion time of tidal tails by the kinematically chaotic nature of the orbits of these globular clusters, thus shortening the time interval during which the tidal tails can be detected. Further investigations with an enlarged cluster sample are needed to confirm whether chaotic and non-chaotic orbits are responsible for the existence of globular clusters with tidal tails and those with extra-tidal features that are different from tidal tails or without any signatures of extended stellar density profiles.
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