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The Milky Way Bulge Extratidal Star Survey: NGC 6569

  • Authors: Joanne Hughes, Andrea Kunder, Kevin Covey, Kathryn Devine, Kristen A. Larson, Carlos Campos, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Joseph E. McEwen, Gabriel I. Perren, Christian I. Johnson, Craig Horton, Luke Smith, Sarah Torset, Cynthia Luna, Matthew Kolmanovsky, Fiona Kovisto, Leander Villarta, Vy Vuong, Iulia T. Simion, Kyle Webster, Erika Silva, Catherine A. Pilachowski, R. Michael Rich, Justin A. Kader, Andreas J. Koch-Hansen, Meridith Joyce, Sean McAdam, Faith Benda

Joanne Hughes et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure A1.

Left Column: Orbital evolution of NGC 6569 in our barred MW model (integrated with GALA). Top: Galactocentric cylindrical radius R(t). Middle: Bar-frame azimuth ϕrot(t). Bottom: Instantaneous bar-frame angular rate dϕ/dt (solid), its time–average (dashed), and the inertial-frame circular frequency Ω (dotted). The listed characteristic periods (Tϕ inertial, Trel bar frame, TR, TZ) are measured from the same integration. Quasiperiodic beating reflects pericenter passages and the coupling with the rotating bar. Right Column: Time variation of the Jacobi (Roche) radius (rJ) and the critical Jacobi (EJ,crit) energy along the same orbit and in the same rotating bar frame. Top: rJ(t) in arcminutes at D = 10.53 kpc. Bottom: EJ,crit(t), computed from the effective potential Φeff evaluated at the L1/L2 saddle points. The “breathing” of rJ (smaller near pericenter, larger near apocenter) is mirrored by the modulation of EJ,crit. These curves are used to assess boundness by comparing stellar EJ to EJ,crit(t).

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