The length asymmetry of the tidal stellar stream Palomar 5 could have been caused by a past encounter(s) with the Galactic bar, thus limiting its use as a probe for structures in the dark matter halo of the Milky Way.
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Efthymiopoulos, C. Mind the Galactic bar. Nat Astron 1, 571–572 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0229-7
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