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Feeling the Pull: A Study of Natural Galactic Accelerometers. II. Kinematics and Mass of the Delicate Stellar Stream of the Palomar 5 Globular Cluster

Authors: Rodrigo A. Ibata, Geraint F. Lewis, Guillaume Thomas, Nicolas F. Martin, and Scott Chapman

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 842 120.

Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 11.

MCMC sampling of the solution space of the King model fits to the Palomar 5 density profile shown in Figure 10. The fit samples the King model parameters ﹩{\sigma }_{0}﹩, the total mass M, and the tidal radius r_t, also allowing for a contamination fraction C.

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