Kavli Affiliate: Anna Frebel | First 5 Authors: Xiaowei Ou, Anirudh Chiti, Nora Shipp, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha | Summary: The Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD) has long been hypothesized to be tidally disrupting, yet no conclusive evidence has been found for tidal disruption owing partly to difficulties in identifying Hercules member stars. In […]
Continue.. Signatures of tidal disruption of the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy