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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 history of the Magellanic Clouds is investigated using N-body hydrodynamic simulations where the initial conditions are set by a genetic algorithm. This technique allows us to identify possible orbits for the Magellanic Clouds around…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Magda Guglielmo , Geraint F. Lewis , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the nearest massive galaxy to the Milky Way. Its circumgalactic medium is complex and multi-phase, containing both stripped HI structures like the Magellanic Stream and Bridge, and a diffuse warm corona…

We report the discovery of 15 stars in the H3 survey that lie, in projection, near the tip of the trailing gaseous Magellanic Stream (MS). The stars have Galactocentric velocities $< -155$ km s$^{-1}$, Galactocentric distances of $\approx…

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

We introduce a novel theoretical model to explain the long-standing puzzle of the nature of the microlensing events reported towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by the MACHO and OGLE collaborations. We propose that a population of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Gurtina Besla , Lars Hernquist , Abraham Loeb

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

The infall of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) into the Milky Way (MW) has displaced the MW's centre of mass, manifesting as an observed reflex motion in the velocities of outer halo stars. We use a Simulation Based Inference framework to…

We examine the properties of the Magellanic Bridge connecting the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using ab-type RR Lyrae variables from the extensive dataset of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), Phase IV data release.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 R. Wagner-Kaiser , Ata Sarajedini

The Magellanic Bridge (MB) is a gaseous stream that links the Large (LMC) and Small (SMC) Magellanic Clouds. Current simulations suggest that the MB forms from a recent interaction between the Clouds. In this scenario, the MB should also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Ricardo Carrera , Blair C. Conn , Noelia E. D. Noël , Justin I. Read , Ángel R López Sánchez

Simulations of tidal streams show that close encounters with dark matter subhalos induce density gaps and distortions in on-sky path along the streams. Accordingly, observing disrupted streams in the Galactic halo would substantiate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Emily Sandford , Andreas H. W. Kuepper , Kathryn V. Johnston , Juerg Diemand

We develop a framework for modelling the Milky Way using stellar streams and a wide range of photometric and kinematic observations. Through the use of mock data we demonstrate that a standard suite of Galactic observations leads to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Nathan Deg , Lawrence Widrow

For et al., who catalogued Magellanic Stream (MS) clouds, suggested that there is substantial large-scale turbulence in the MS. Here we follow up with a series of FLASH simulations that model the hydrodynamic effects that clouds have on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-14 M. Elliott Williams , Robin L. Shelton

We present a geometrodynamical method for determining distances to orbital streams of HI gas in the Galaxy. The method makes use of our offset from the Galactic centre and assumes that the gas comprising the stream nearly follows a planar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shoko Jin , Donald Lynden-Bell

In a companion paper by Koposov et al., RR Lyrae from \textit{Gaia} Data Release 2 are used to demonstrate that stars in the Orphan stream have velocity vectors significantly misaligned with the stream track, suggesting that it has received…

We show that a Magellanic Cloud origin for the warp of the Milky Way can explain most quantitative features of the outer HI layer recently identified by Levine, Blitz & Heiles (2005). We construct a model similar to that of Weinberg (1998)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin D. Weinberg , Leo Blitz

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

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

This paper has been withdrawn by the author. A computer simulation of two galaxies, passing in parabolic orbits, was made to show their interaction and the tidal patterns formed. The galaxies were modelled as a point masses surrounded by 5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-31 Timothy Harrison

We present a new precision measurement of gas-phase abundances of S, O, N, Si, Fe, P, Al, Ca as well as molecular hydrogen (H_2) in the Leading Arm (region II, LAII) of the Magellanic Stream (MS) towards the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3783. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 P. Richter , A. J. Fox , B. P. Wakker , J. C. Howk , N. Lehner , K. A. Barger , E. D'Onghia , F. J. Lockman
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