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Rubin Observatory Reveals a Dust-shrouded Halo Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus

  • Authors: Aashay Pai, William Cerny, Andrew B. Pace, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Peter S. Ferguson, Marla Geha, Chin Yi Tan, Sasha N. Campana, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Alexander H. Riley, Nora Shipp, Guy S. Stringfellow

Aashay Pai et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Comparing Rubin-GC1 (gold star) to the predicted stellar debris from the Sagittarius dSph (blue) in the simulations from E. Vasiliev et al. (2021). (Top Left) Galactocentric Y versus X. (Top Center) Z versus X. (Top Right) Z versus Y. To guide the eye, we overplot the rough extent of the Galactic disk (gray rectangle) and the position of the Sun (⊙) and Galactic Center (+). (Bottom Left) Proper motion in R.A. (μα*) versus R.A. (Bottom Center) Proper motion in decl. (μδ) versus decl.. (Bottom Right) Line-of-sight velocity versus Galactocentric radius. We find good agreement between the available 5D phase-space properties of Rubin-GC1 and the Sagittarius debris, and we predict that Rubin-GC1 will have the highest probability of association with Sagittarius if its mean radial velocity is measured to be vhel ≈ 100–200 km s−1.

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