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DELVE-ing into the Milky Way’s Globular Clusters: Assessing Extratidal Features in NGC 5897, NGC 7492, and Testing Detectability with Deeper Photometry

  • Authors: A. Chiti, K. Tavangar, P. S. Ferguson, J. A. Carballo-Bello, A. M. Senkevich, D. Erkal, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace, A. P. Ji, D. J. Sand, G. Limberg, A. Chaturvedi, D. Crnojević, G. E. Medina, A. H. Riley, N. Shipp, A. K. Vivas, M. Wertheim, Y. Choi, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, M. Navabi, J. D. Sakowska, G. S. Stringfellow, A. Zenteno

A. Chiti et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Top: a 3 × 3 postage stamp plot where the top left panel is the observed density plot NGC 5897, and the other panels are example noise maps generated to assess the significance of the excess in NGC 5897, as described in Section 3.1. Note that regions masked in white correspond to pixels with values equal to 0 in the raw data, corresponding to a lack of coverage (see Figure 3). The red and yellow circles correspond to rt and rJ, respectively, and the colorscale corresponds to what is shown in Figure 3. Bottom: An azimuthally averaged density profile of the background-subtracted observed data is shown as blue points, with the mean, 1σ, and 2σ of the distribution of density profiles from 1000 noise map samples shown in black/gray. The observed excess at the rJ is at a 4.6σ significance relative to distribution of density profiles from the noise maps.

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