The luminosity function of Palomar 5 and its tidal tails

Details The luminosity function of Palomar 5 and its tidal tails The luminosity function of Palomar 5 and its tidal tails

2003-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307496v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the conference "Satellites and tidal streams" held at La Palma, Cana

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We present the main sequence luminosity function of the tidally disrupted globular cluster Palomar 5 and its tidal tails. For this work we analyzed imaging data obtained with the Wide Field Camera at the INT (La Palma) and data from the Wide Field Imager at the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope at La Silla down to a limiting magnitude of approximately 24.5 mag in B. Our results indicate that preferentially fainter stars were removed from the cluster so that the LF of the cluster's main body exhibits a significant degree of flattening compared to other GCs. This is attributed to its advanced dynamical evolution. The LF of the tails is, in turn, enhanced with faint, low-mass stars, which we interpret as a consequence of mass segregation in the cluster.

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