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Dating the Tidal Disruption of Globular Clusters with GAIA Data on Their Stellar Streams

  • Authors: Sownak Bose, Idan Ginsburg, and Abraham Loeb

2018 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 859 L13.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

All-sky projections of streams at z = 0. Stars that pass Gaia's detection limit of G ≈ 20 mag are shown in color; stars fainter than this limit are shown in gray. Individual colors denote the radial velocity of each star measured relative to an observer on the solar circle.

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