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Bono, G.; Monelli, M.; Walker, A. R.; Munteanu, A.; Buonanno, R.; Caputo, F.; Castellani, V.; Corsi, C. E.; Dall'Ora, M.; Francois, P.; Nonino, M.; Pulone, L.; Ripepi, V.; Smith, H. A.; Stetson, P. B.; Thevenin, F.
Bibliographical reference
Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana Supplement, v.9, p.212 (2006)
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Recent cosmological N-body simulations suggest that current empirical
estimates of tidal radii in dSphs might be underestimated by at least
one order of magnitude. To constrain the plausibility of this
theoretical framework, we undertook a multiband (U,B,V,I) survey of the
Carina dSph. Deep B,V data of several fields located at radial distances
from the Carina center ranging from 0.5 to 4.5 degrees show a sizable
sample of faint blue objects with the same magnitudes and colors of old,
Turn-Off stars detected across the center. We found that the (U-V,B-I)
color-color plane is a robust diagnostic to split stars from background
galaxies. Unfortunately, current U,I-band data are too shallow to firmly
constrain the real extent of Carina.