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The Magellanic Stream and Leading Arm of HI that stretches from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) and over 200 degrees of the Southern sky is thought to be formed from multiple encounters between the LMC and SMC. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Stephen A. Pardy , Elena D'Onghia , Andrew J. Fox

We establish that the Magellanic Stream (MS) is some 40 degrees longer than previously known with certainty and that the entire MS and Leading Arm (LA) system is thus at least 200 degrees long. With the GBT, we conducted a ~200 square…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 David L. Nidever , Steven R. Majewski , W. Butler Burton , Lou Nigra

We present the first fully and uniformly sampled, spatially complete HI survey of the entire Magellanic System with high velocity resolution, performed with the Parkes Telescope. The final data-cubes have an rms noise of sigma ~ 0.05 K and…

We present results from neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the tip of the Magellanic Stream (MS), obtained with the Arecibo telescope as a part of the on-going survey by the Consortium for Galactic studies with the Arecibo L-band Feed…

We have analyzed the Magellanic Stream (MS) using the deepest and the most resolved H I survey of the Southern Hemisphere (the Galactic All-Sky Survey). The overall Stream is structured into two filaments, suggesting two ram-pressure tails…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-08 F. Hammer , Y. B. Yang , H. Flores , M. Puech , S. Fouquet

We present a Parkes multibeam \HI survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This survey, which is sensitive to spatial structure in the range 200 pc to 10 kpc, complements the Australia Telescope Compact survey, which is sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-01 L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim , M. R. Calabretta , R. F. Haynes , M. J. Kesteven

The Magellanic Stream is a 100\deg x 10\deg filament of gas which lies within the Galactic halo and contains ~ 2 x 10^8 \Msun of neutral hydrogen. We present data from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) in the first complete survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. E. Putman , L. Staveley-Smith , K. C. Freeman , B. K. Gibson , D. G. Barnes

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a well-resolved gaseous tail originating from the Magellanic Clouds. Studies of its physical properties and chemical composition are needed to understand its role in Galactic evolution. We investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Nimisha Kumari , Andrew J. Fox , Jason Tumlinson , Christopher Thom , Tobias Westmeier , Justin Ely

Bound orbits have traditionally been assigned to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) in order to provide a formation scenario for the Magellanic Stream (MS) and its Leading Arm (LA), two prominent neutral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Diaz , Kenji Bekki

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a massive and extended tail of multi-phase gas stripped out of the Magellanic Clouds and interacting with the Galactic halo. In this first paper of an ongoing program to study the Stream in absorption, we…

Recent high precision proper motions from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) suggest that the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are either on their first passage or on an eccentric long period (>6 Gyr) orbit about…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Gurtina Besla , Nitya Kallivayalil , Lars Hernquist , Roeland P. van der Marel , T. J. Cox , Dusan Keres

We present an N-body model that reproduces the morphology and kinematics of the Magellanic Stream (MS), a vast neutral hydrogen (HI) structure that trails behind the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) in their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jonathan D. Diaz , Kenji Bekki

The Magellanic Stream (MS) - an enormous ribbon of gas spanning $140^\circ$ of the southern sky trailing the Magellanic Clouds - has been exquisitely mapped in the five decades since its discovery. However, despite concerted efforts, no…

The LMC, SMC, and the Milky Way are a spectacular set of interacting galaxies. The prominent tidal arms which protrude from the Magellanic Clouds extend for tens of kiloparsecs and cover a large part of the southern sky. These arms, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bruens , J. Kerp , L. Staveley-Smith

We present a model for the formation of the Magellanic Stream (MS) due to ram pressure stripping. We model the history of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds in the recent cosmological past in a static Milky Way potential with diffuse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Peter Craig , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Stefi Baum , Benjamin T. Lewis

Extending for over 200 degrees across the sky, the Magellanic Stream together with its Leading Arm is the most spectacular example of a gaseous stream in the local Universe. The Stream is an interwoven tail of filaments trailing the…

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) are the most massive gas-bearing systems falling into the Galaxy at the present epoch. They show clear signs of interaction, manifested in particular by the Magellanic Stream, a spectacular gaseous wake that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Marcel S. Pawlowski , Tobias K. Fritz

We present a study of the discrete clouds and filaments in the Magellanic Stream using a new high-resolution survey of neutral hydrogen (\HI) conducted with H75 array of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, complemented by single-dish…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 B. -Q. For , L. Staveley-Smith , D. Matthews , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

The Magellanic Cloud System (MCS) interacts via tidal and drag forces with the Milky Way galaxy. Using the Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS) of atomic hydrogen we explore the role of drag on the evolution of the so-called Leading Arm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-23 M. S. Venzmer , J. Kerp , P. M. W. Kalberla

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is a nearby laboratory for studying the fate of cool gas streams injected into a gaseous galactic halo. We investigate properties of the boundary layer between the cool MS gas and the hot Milky Way halo with 21 cm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Lou Nigra , Snezana Stanimirovic , John S. Gallagher , Kenneth Wood , David Nidever , Steven Majewski
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