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2023RNAAS...7..127S - Research Notes of the AAS, 7, 127 (2023/June-0)

Extratidal Members of Segue 3 are Rare and Difficult to Confirm.

SILVA E., COVEY K., WEBSTER K., LARSON K., HUGHES J., KUNDER A. and PRICE-WHELAN A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We simulate extratidal members of Segue 3, a sparse, faint, and small, ∼2.6 Gyr halo cluster, and investigate their observational detectability. Using the Gala package to simulate Segue 3's potential tidal tails, we find that the tails are narrow, linear, and around 4°-6° in length: the tails' position angles and width are most sensitive to the uncertainties in the cluster's distance and mean proper motion. Post-processing the synthetic tail particles to assign realistic observational properties, we infer that Segue 3 would have close to 25 extra-tidal members with G ≤ 23, concentrated ≲1.°33 from the center of the cluster. The 11 candidate extratidal members identified by Fadely and collaborators are comparable in number, but significantly closer to the cluster center (d ∼ 4') than these simulations predict. This analysis demonstrates the difficulty of identifying extratidal stars in the Milky Way's halo clusters, even in deep photometric surveys.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Star clusters - Globular star clusters - Open star clusters

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