Tidal Remnants Around the Galactic Globular Clusters NGC1851 and NGC1904

Carballo-Bello, J. A.; Martínez-Delgado, D.
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Volume . ISBN 978-3-642-11249-2. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, p. 383

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2010
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Deep photometry around the Galactic globular clusters NGC 1851 and NGC 1904 obtained with the Wide Field Imager in the 2.2 m ESO telescope reveals a distinct main-sequence of a metal-poor stellar population, consistent with the presence of a very low surface brightness stellar system. The unveiled population might belong to an unknown tidal stream in the Milky Way but other possibilities are here discussed.