Properties of observed tidal tails in gold and silver catalogues. (a) Spatial distribution of tidal tails and clusters (coloured arbitrarily) in the Galactic X Y plane. (b) Spatial distribution of tidal tails and clusters in the Galactic Y Z plane. (c) Spatial distribution of tidal tails and clusters in the Galactic co-ordinate plane. (d) The distribution of cluster age and distance from the Sun, coloured according to the total span and sized according to N_cluster. (e) MF of all stars in the clusters (solid lines) and tail (dashed lines), binned according to the cluster age. The grey lines indicate Salpeter IMF slope. (f) Variation in BF for the cluster and the tidal tails (ordered according to the cluster age). Only the clusters with <40% errors in all three BFs are shown. The marker size corresponds to the population size. (g) Distribution of the detected tail population with the cluster population. The leading (blue) and trailing (orange) tails are shown connected by a solid grey line. The dashed green line represents N_tail=N_cluster. (h) Clusters coloured according to normalised asymmetry in the tail populations (ε_N). (i) Histogram of ε_N. (j) Clusters coloured according to normalised asymmetry in the tail spans (ε_span). (k) Histogram of ε_span. Similar plots for the bronze catalogues are given in Figure A.9.