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astro-ph2004
Mapping Tidal Streams around Galactic Globular Clusters
David Martinez-Delgado, Dana I. Dinescu, Robert Zinn +3
The surroundings of globular clusters in the outer halo are one of the best places to look for the remnants of ancient dwarf satellites. The classical Searle & Zinn (1978) scenario…
astro-ph1999
Omega Centauri: Nucleus of a Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal?
S. R. Majewski, R. J. Patterson, D. I. Dinescu +4
We focus on two aspects of Omega Cen that are rather uncharacteristic of globular clusters: its metallicity distribution and its orbit. We use (1) a Washington (M-T_2,M)_o color-ma…