Tidal tails of star clusters
By A. Küpper, Pavel Kroupa, H. Baumgardt, Douglas Heggie. 2009
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Based on recent findings of a formation mechanism of substructure in tidal tails by Kupper et al., we investigate a more comprehensive set of N-body models of star clusters on orbits about a Milky Way like potential. We find that the predicted epicyclic overdensities arise in any tidal tail no matter which orbit the cluster follows as long as the cluster lives long enough for the overdensities to build up.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2671d81b7abdf4dd6721328140e17801cdae99a2
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In Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Hans-Walter Rix
- P. Hopkins
- L. Hernquist
- Pavel Kroupa
- Sergey E. Koposov
- V. Belokurov
- C. Conroy
- N. Evans II
In Instrumentation
- Hans-Walter Rix
- Sergey E. Koposov
- David W. Hogg
- V. Belokurov
- M. Pawlowski
- Jo Bovy
- Pavel Kroupa
- J. Pflamm-Altenburg
Citations in the corpus
- The Dark Matter Crisis: Falsification of the Current Standard Model of Cosmology (2012, background): “…star clusters as they dissolve over time through energyequipartition driven evaporation of stars in the collisional systems (i.e. the star clusters) that have median two-body relaxation times shorter than a Hubble time and/or through time-variable tidal fields (Kroupa 1997; Küpper et al. 2010).”
- The VPOS: a vast polar structure of satellite galaxies, globular clusters and streams around the Milky Way (2012, background): “Those might arise as epicyclic overdensities in the tail (Küpper et al. 2010).”
- CLUMPY STREAMS FROM CLUMPY HALOS: DETECTING MISSING SATELLITES WITH COLD STELLAR STRUCTURES (2010, background): “…has inspired discussions of how the intrinsic properties of stellar streams themselves could cause inhomogeneities in their density distributions (Küpper et al. 2008, 2010; Quillen & Comparetta 2010) and these self-induced fluctuations could confuse the conclusive association of observed…”
- CONSTRAINING THE MILKY WAY POTENTIAL WITH A SIX-DIMENSIONAL PHASE-SPACE MAP OF THE GD-1 STELLAR STREAM (2009, background): “It may be related to either the history of the disruption process (Küpper et al. 2010), or e.g. interaction with dark matter subhalos around MW (Carlberg 2009).”