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Is Crater II Disrupting?

  • Authors: A. Katherina Vivas, Alistair R. Walker, Clara E. Martínez-Vázquez, MJ Cooke, Carme Gallart, Matteo Monelli, Jaime A. Rojas Cancino, David L. Nidever

A. Katherina Vivas et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Left: distance to the RRLSs along the stream as defined by the line in Figure 6 (right panel). The red line is the best fit to the data excluding the likely outlier at ﹩({\xi }^{{\prime} },d)=(1\mathop{.}\limits^{^\circ }4,\,86\,{\rm{kpc}})﹩ (see text). Right: same as the left panel, but expanding toward larger angular distances in the “near” tail to include the stars detected by P. S. Coppi et al. (2024; an offset of −2.78 kpc was applied to those stars to match our distance scale). The dashed red portion of the line is the extrapolation of our fitted gradient toward larger ﹩{\xi }^{{\prime} }﹩.

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