Notes on counter-orbiting globular clusters in the Milky Way
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-03-17 v2
Abstract
It is argued that Galactic globular clusters rotating retrograde may originate from prograde globular clusters that change their angular momenturm due to gravitational perturbations from the Magellanic Cloud galaxies. It is shown that those galactic globular clusters with orbits near the Lagrangiane point of the system "Milky Way - Maggellanic Clouds" can change the sign of their angular momentum in few Gyr time scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.3704,
title = {Notes on counter-orbiting globular clusters in the Milky Way},
author = {Victoria Yankelevich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3704},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures