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Caption: Figure 6.
Final snapshots of the tidal tail simulations of 47 Tuc in the axisymmetric (left-hand panel), steadily rotating barred (middle panel), and slowing barred (right-hand panel) MW potentials. The particles are shown in on-sky coordinates centered on the cluster, marked by the black cross. The two black circles indicate the radial range (95–308 pc) of the diffuse extended halo observed by Piatti (2017). The right-hand panel shows the projected density of the stripped stars as a function of projected radius, with the two radii again marked. The bar causes the tidal tails to be much more diffuse, creating an extended halo around the cluster with a flat density profile.
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