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Discovery of Tidal Tails Around the Distant Globular Cluster Palomar 14

  • Authors: A. Sollima, D. Martínez-Delgado, D. Valls-Gabaud, and J. Peñarrubia

Sollima et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 726 47.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Last orbit destruction rate as a function of the orbital eccentricity calculated in the case of tidal stripping from a non-relaxed satellite (solid line; calculated from Taylor & Babul 2001). The observational lower limit of the current destruction rate is marked with a dotted line.

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