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The origin of the gas in between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) -- known as the `Magellanic Bridge' (MB) -- is puzzling. Numerical simulations suggest that the MB formed from tidally stripped gas and stars in a recent interaction between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Noelia E. D. Noel , Blair C. Conn , Ricardo Carrera , Justin I. Read , Hans-Walter Rix , Andrew Dolphin

Dwarf galaxies enable us to study the early phases of galaxy evolution and are key to many open questions about the hierarchical structure of the Universe. The Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC) are the most luminous dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Thomas Schmidt , Maria-Rosa Cioni , Florian Niederhofer , Jonathan Diaz , Gal Matijevic

The origin of the gas in between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), known as the Magellanic Bridge (MB), has always been the subject of controversy. To shed light into this, we present the results from the MAGIC II project aimed at probing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-23 Noelia E. D. Noel , Blair C. Conn , Justin I. Read , Ricardo Carrera , Andrew Dolphin , Hans-Walter Rix

We present the discovery of stellar tidal tails around the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds in the Gaia DR1 data. In between the Clouds, their tidal arms are stretched towards each other to form an almost continuous stellar bridge. Our…

We use a new panoramic imaging survey, conducted with the Dark Energy Camera, to map the stellar fringes of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds to extremely low surface brightness V $\gtrsim$ 32 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. Our results starkly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Dougal Mackey , Sergey E. Koposov , Gary Da Costa , Vasily Belokurov , Denis Erkal , Pete Kuzma

The Magellanic system comprises the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and the less frequently observed Magellanic Bridge and Magellanic Stream. The Bridge is traced by neutral gas and has an observed stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Gemma Bagheri , Maria-Rosa Cioni , Ralf Napiwotzki

The Magellanic Clouds are a nearby pair of interacting dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. Studying their kinematic properties is essential to understanding their origin and dynamical evolution. They have prominent tidal…

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) offer a unique laboratory for studying galaxy interaction and the evolution of dwarf galaxies. By investigating when and how stars formed, the star formation history (SFH) is a powerful tool to provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 F. Ficara , V. Ripepi , M. Cignoni , M. Gatto , M. Marconi , M. Tosi , M. Bellazzini , E. K. Grebel , M. R. Cioni , C. Tortora , A. Mercurio

We exploit the first data release from the Gaia mission to identify candidate Mira variables in the outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds. The repeated observations of sources during the initial phase of the Gaia mission is used to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Alis J. Deason , Vasily Belokurov , Denis Erkal , Sergey E. Koposov , Dougal Mackey

We assemble a catalogue of Magellanic Cloud red giants from Data Release 2 of the $Gaia$ mission and, utilising machine learning methods, obtain photometric metallicity estimates for them. In doing so, we are able to chemically map the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 J. Grady , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

We investigate the present distributions of gas and young stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) based on fully self-consistent numerical simulations of the Clouds for the last ~ 0.8 Gyr. Our principal results, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

The interaction between the LMC and SMC (the Clouds) has resulted in prominent tidal features, including an extended bridge of gas and stars connecting the two galaxies. This Bridge has likely formed during the most recent interaction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Marie Schölch , Óscar Jiménez-Arranz , Mercè Romero-Gómez , Xavier Luri

We examine whether the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is currently losing its stellar halo to Milky Way (MW) tides. We present a live $N$-body model for the ongoing MW-LMC interaction that predicts a prominent stream of stars tidally stripped…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Michael S. Petersen , Jorge Peñarrubia , Ella Jones

The Magellanic Bridge is the nearest low-metallicity, tidally stripped environment, offering a unique high-resolution view of physical conditions in merging and forming galaxies. In this paper we present analysis of candidate massive young…

Context. The interactions between the SMC and LMC created the Magellanic Bridge, a stream of gas and stars pulled out of the SMC towards the LMC about 150 Myr ago. The tidal counterpart of this structure, which should include a trailing…

We investigate structural, kinematical, and chemical properties of stars and gas in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) interacting with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Galaxy based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

We study the luminosity function of intermediate-age red-clump stars using deep, near-infrared photometric data covering $\sim$ 20 deg$^2$ located throughout the central part of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), comprising the main body and…

The Magellanic Bridge stretching between the SMC and LMC is the nearest tidally stripped intergalactic environment and has a low average metallicity of $Z~0.1Z_{\odot}$. Here we report the first discovery of three O-type stars in the Bridge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 Varsha Ramachandran , L. M. Oskinova , W. -R. Hamann

We discuss how tidal interaction between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and the Galaxy triggers galaxy-wide star formation in the Clouds for the last ~0.2 Gyr based on our chemodynamical simulations on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kenji Bekki

We present a novel pair of numerical models of the interaction history between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) and our Milky Way (MW) in light of recent high precision proper motions (Kallivayalil et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Gurtina Besla , Nitya Kallivayalil , Lars Hernquist , Roeland P. van der Marel , T. J. Cox , Dusan Keres
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