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We analyzed the largest Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) cluster sample (32) with proper motions and radial velocity measurements, from which we obtained their space velocity components. By adopting as a reference the recent best-fitted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Andrés E. Piatti

We use high resolution N-Body/SPH simulations to study the hydro-dynamical and gravitational interaction between the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way. We model the dark and hot extended halo components as well as the stellar/gaseous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Mastropietro , B. Moore , L. Mayer , J. Stadel , J. Wadsley

The results of the interaction between the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are revealed through several high velocity complexes which are connected to the Clouds. The exact mechanism of their formation is under some debate, but they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Putman

High-velocity atomic clouds in the Galactic center have attracted significant attention due to their enigmatic formation process, which is potentially linked to the starburst or supermassive black hole activities in the region. Further, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Mengfei Zhang , Miao Li

It has been suggested that the central stellar velocity dispersion of galaxies can trace dark matter halo mass directly. We test this hypothesis using a complete spectroscopic sample of isolated galaxies surrounded by faint satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Gangil Seo , Jubee Sohn , Myung Gyoon Lee

We study the spectral properties in the range 3600 \AA - 6800 \AA of the nuclear region of galaxies behind the Magellanic Clouds. The radial velocities clarified the nature of the objects as background galaxies or extended objects belonging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. M. Dutra , E. Bica , J. J. Claria , A. E. Piatti , A. V. Ahumada

We present a combined analysis of the kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud through its HI gas, carbon stars, and red supergiant stars. After correcting the line-of-sight velocities for the recent accurate measurement of the LMC's space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Knut A. G. Olsen , Philip Massey

The halo of our Galaxy is populated with a significant number of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) moving with a speed up to $500$ km/s. It is suggested that these HVCs might contain a non-negligible fraction of the missing baryons. The main aim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-03 Noraiz Tahir , Martin Lopez Corredoira , Francesco De Paolis

We use new high-resolution HI data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) to investigate the dynamics of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We model the HI gas component as a rotating disc of non-negligible angular…

We derive general expressions for the LMC velocity field which we fit to kinematical data for 1041 carbon stars. We demonstrate that all previous studies of LMC kinematics have made unnecessary over-simplifications that have led to…

We study the dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a model for the Local Group whose mass is constrained using the timing argument/two-body limit of the action principle. The goal is to evaluate the role of M31 in generating the high angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-22 Nitya Kallivayalil , Gurtina Besla , Robyn Sanderson , Charles Alcock

Measurements of the accelerations of stars enabled by time-series extreme-precision spectroscopic observations, from pulsar timing, and from eclipsing binary stars in the Solar Neighborhood offer insights into the mass distribution of the…

The Magellanic Cloud system represents a unique laboratory for study of both interacting dwarf galaxies and the ongoing process of the formation of the Milky Way and its halo. We focus on one aspect of this complex, 3 body interaction - the…

We extract at redshift z=0 a Milky Way sized object including gas, stars and dark matter (DM) from a recent, high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation with baryons. Its resolution is sufficient to witness the formation of a rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 F. -S. Ling , E. Nezri , E. Athanassoula , R. Teyssier

Predicting the local flux of dark matter particles is vital for dark matter direct detection experiments. To date, such predictions have been based on simulations that model the dark matter alone. Here we include the influence of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , V. Debattista , O. Agertz , L. Mayer , A. M. Brooks , F. Governato , G. Lake

The Magellanic Clouds are often considered as outliers in the satellite system of the Milky Way because they are irregular and gas-rich galaxies. From their large relative motion, they are likely from their first pass near the Milky Way,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanbin YANG , Francois HAMMER

The dominant gaseous structure in the Galactic halo is the Magellanic Stream, an extended network of neutral and ionized filaments surrounding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC), the two most massive satellite galaxies of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-10 Scott Lucchini , Elena D'Onghia , Andrew J Fox , Chad Bustard , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ellen Zweibel

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has an extensive H$_{\alpha}$ emission halo that traces an extended, warm ionized component of its interstellar medium. Using the Wisconsin H$_{\alpha}$ Mapper (WHAM) telescope, we present the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-18 B. M. Smart , L. M. Haffner , K. A. Barger , D. A. Ciampa , A. S. Hill , D. Krishnarao , G. J. Madsen

We present new HI observations of the high-velocity cloud (HVC) that we resolved near the Local Group dwarf galaxy LGS 3. The cloud is rotating, with an implied mass that makes it dark matter-dominated no matter what its distance from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua D. Simon , Timothy Robishaw , Leo Blitz

Recent observational studies using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have derived the center-of-mass proper motion (CMPM) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Although these studies carefully treated both rotation and perspective effects in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kenji Bekki