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Date: Dec 30 10:54 2016

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Title: The southern leading and trailing wraps of the Sagittarius tidal stream around the globular cluster Whiting1 Author: Julio A. Carballo-Bello, Jesus M. Corral-Santana, David Martinez-Delgado, Antonio Sollima, Ricardo R. Munoz, Patrick Cote, Sonia Duffau, Marcio Catelan, Eva K. Grebel We present a study of the kinematics of 101 stars observed with VIMOS around Whiting1, a globular cluster embedded in the Sagittarius tidal stream. The obtained velocity distribution shows the presence of two wraps of that halo substructure at the same heliocentric distance as that of the cluster and with well differentiated mean radial velocities. The most prominent velocity component seems to be associated with the trailing arm of Sagittarius with <vr> ~ -130 km/s, which is consistent with the velocity of Whiting1. This result supports that this globular cluster was formed in Sagittarius and recently accreted by the Milky Way. The second component with <vr> ~ 120 km/s might correspond to the leading arm of Sagittarius, which has been predicted by numerical simulations but with no conclusive observational evidence of its existence presented so far. This detection of the old leading wrap of Sagittarius in the southern hemisphere may be used to confirm and further constrain the models for its orbit and evolution. Read more (292kb, PDF) __________________

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Date: Feb 12 12:23 2007

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Title: Whiting 1: the youngest globular cluster associated with the Sgr dSph Authors: Giovanni Carraro (Padova), Robert Zinn (Yale), Christian Moni Bidin (UChile) Recently, Carraro (2005) drew attention to the remarkable star cluster Whiting 1 by showing that it lies about 40 kpc from the Sun and is therefore unquestionably a member of the Galactic halo (b=-60.6 deg.). Its CMD indicated that Whiting 1 is very young (5 Gyrs) for a globular cluster. It is very likely that Whiting 1 originated in a dwarf galaxy that has since been disrupted by the Milky Way. Deep CCD photometry in the BVI pass-bands obtained with the VLT is used to improve the quality of the CMD and to determine the cluster's luminosity function and surface density profile. High-resolution spectrograms obtained with Magellan are used to measure the cluster's radial velocity and to place limits on its possible metallicity. The measurements of distance and radial velocity are used to test the cluster's membership in the stellar streams from the Sgr dSph. From our CMD of Whiting 1, we derive new estimates for the cluster's age (6.5 Gyrs), metallicity ([Fe/H]=-0.65), and distance (29.4 kpc). From echelle spectrograms of three stars, we obtain -130.6 km/s for the cluster's radial velocity and show from measurements of two infra-red CaII lines that the [Fe/H] of the cluster probably lies in the range -1.1 to -0.4. We demonstrate that the position of Whiting 1 on the sky, its distance from the Sun, and its radial velocity are identical to within the errors of both the theoretical predictions of the trailing stream of stars from the Sgr dSph galaxy and the previous observations of the M giant stars that delineate the streams. With the addition of Whiting 1, there is now strong evidence that 6 globular clusters formed within the Sgr dSph. Read more (195kb, PDF) __________________

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