Effect of the Magellanic Clouds on the Milky Way disk and VICE VERSA
Abstract
The satellite-disk interaction provides limits on halo properties in two ways: (1) physical arguments motivate the excitation of observable Galactic disk structure in the presence of a massive halo, although precise limits on halo parameters are scenario-dependent; (2) conversely, the Milky Way as a whole has significant dynamical effect on LMC structure and this interaction also leads to halo limits. Together, these scenarios give strong corroboration of our current gravitational mass estimates and suggests a rapidly evolving LMC.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9811204,
title = {Effect of the Magellanic Clouds on the Milky Way disk and VICE VERSA},
author = {Martin D. Weinberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9811204},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 8 Postscript figures, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in the Third Stromlo Symposium: The Galactic Halo (ASP Conference Series), in press. HTML version available at: http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/~weinberg/stromlo