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During the past 20 years, numerous stellar streams have been discovered in both the Milky Way and the Local Group. These streams have been tidally torn from orbiting systems, which suggests that most of them should roughly trace the orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-18 Daniele S. M. Fantin

We use the star formation history of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to place quantitative limits on the effect of tidal interactions and gas infall on the star formation and chemical enrichment history of the SMC. The coincident timing of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dennis Zaritsky , Jason Harris

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

In this paper, we build from previous work (Bustard et al. 2018) and present simulations of recent (within the past Gyr), magnetized, cosmic ray driven outflows from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), including our first attempts to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-28 Chad Bustard , Ellen G. Zweibel , Elena D'Onghia , J. S. Gallagher , Ryan Farber

Observations from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) Survey of the tail of Complex C are presented and the halo clouds associated with this complex cataloged. The properties of the Complex C clouds are compared to clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-18 W. -H. Hsu , M. E. Putman , F. Heitsch , S. Stanimirovic , J. E. G. Peek , S. E. Clark

From the $\Lambda$ cold dark matter paradigm it is expected that galaxies merge and grow in their environments. These processes form various tidal features depending on the merger mass ratio, orbital parameters, and gas richness. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Jan-Niklas Pippert , Matthias Kluge , Ralf Bender

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

Due to their close proximity, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (SMC/LMC) provide natural laboratories for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. With the goal of determining the structure and dynamical state of the SMC, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Michele De Leo , Ricardo Carrera , Noelia E. D. Noel , Justin I. Read , Denis Erkal , Carme Gallart

We performed an extended analysis of the parameter space for the interaction of the Magellanic System with the Milky Way (MW). The varied parameters cover the phase space parameters, the masses, the structure, and the orientation of both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Ruzicka , J. Palous , Ch. Theis

We present results from an extensive spectroscopic survey of field stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). 3037 sources, predominantly first-ascent red giants, spread across roughly 37.5 sq. deg, are analysed. The line of sight velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 P. D. Dobbie , A. A. Cole , A. Subramaniam , S. Keller

[Abridged] Within the hierarchical framework for galaxy formation, minor merging and tidal interactions are expected to shape all large galaxies to the present day. As a consequence, most seemingly normal disk galaxies should be surrounded…

We present here a preliminary report and commentary of recently processed observations of Ha emission towards the Magellanic Bridge. These data have been analysed in an attempt to quantify the extent to which the stellar population is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-17 E. Muller , Q. Parker

We present deep optical images of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) using a low cost telephoto lens with a wide field of view to explore stellar substructure in the outskirts of the stellar disk of the LMC (r < 10 degrees…

We investigate the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) in self-consistent, chemodynamical simulations of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) during their recent (z<0.3) past. An explicit modelling of dust and molecular hydrogen lifecycles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Cameron Yozin , Kenji Bekki

The origin and survival of the Smith high-velocity HI cloud has so far defied explanation. This object has several remarkable properties: (i) its prograde orbit is ~100 km/s faster than the underlying Galactic rotation; (ii) its total gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Thor Tepper-Garcia , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) and their interactions with each other have given rise to multiple stellar substructures in their periphery as well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Bethany Garver , David Nidever , Victor Debattista , Nathan Deg

The Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC) form the closest interacting galactic system to the Milky Way, therewith providing a laboratory to test cosmological models in the local Universe. We quantify the likelihood for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Moritz Haslbauer , Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa , Hongsheng Zhao , Elena Asencio

We present a brief history of Galactic astrophysics, and explain the origin of halo substructure in the Galaxy. We motivate our study of tidal streams by highlighting the tight constraints that analysis of the trajectories of tidal streams…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-19 Andy Eyre

I construct a near-IR star count map of the LMC and demonstrate, using the viewing angles derived in Paper I, that the LMC is intrinsically elongated. I argue that this is due to the tidal force from the Milky Way. The near-IR data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roeland P. van der Marel

We present our spectroscopic program aimed to study some new interesting features recently discovered in the Magellanic Cloud System. These were revealed by the spatial distribution of OB-type candidate stars, selected based on UV, optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-23 C. Moni Bidin , D. I. Casetti-Dinescu , R. A. Mendez , T. M. Girard , K. Vieira , V. I. Korchagin , W. F. van Altena