The tidal remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
07 2020
Historique:
received: 13 12 2019
accepted: 26 05 2020
entrez: 31 7 2020
pubmed: 31 7 2020
medline: 31 7 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Globular clusters are some of the oldest bound stellar structures observed in the Universe

Identifiants

pubmed: 32728241
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2483-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-020-2483-6
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

768-770

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

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Auteurs

Zhen Wan (Z)

Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Geraint F Lewis (GF)

Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. geraint.lewis@sydney.edu.au.

Ting S Li (TS)

Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA.
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Jeffrey D Simpson (JD)

School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Sarah L Martell (SL)

School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in Three Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Daniel B Zucker (DB)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Macquarie University Research Centre for Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Jeremy R Mould (JR)

Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Denis Erkal (D)

Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Andrew B Pace (AB)

McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Dougal Mackey (D)

Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Alexander P Ji (AP)

Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Sergey E Koposov (SE)

McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Kyler Kuehn (K)

Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Australian Astronomical Optics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Nora Shipp (N)

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA.
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Eduardo Balbinot (E)

Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (J)

Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in Three Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Andrew R Casey (AR)

School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Gary S Da Costa (GS)

Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Prajwal Kafle (P)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Sanjib Sharma (S)

Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in Three Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Gayandhi M De Silva (GM)

Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in Three Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Australian Astronomical Optics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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