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We use high resolution N-body/SPH simulations to study the hydrodynamical interaction between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the hot halo of the Milky Way. We investigate whether ram-pressure acting on the satellite's ISM can explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chiara Mastropietro , Andreas Burkert , Ben Moore

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

Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) and similar proposals can (at least partially) explain the excess rotation of galaxies or the equivalent mass-discrepancy acceleration, without (or by reducing) the requirement of dark matter halos. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Robert Monjo

Motivated by recent studies suggesting that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could be significantly more massive than previously thought, we explore whether the approximation of an inertial Galactocentric reference frame is still valid in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 Facundo A. Gómez , Gurtina Besla , Daniel D. Carpintero , Álvaro Villalobos , Brian W. O'Shea , Eric F. Bell

A suite of high-resolution N-body simulations of the Magellanic Clouds -- Milky Way system are presented and compared directly with newly available data from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). We show that the interaction between Small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tim W. Connors , Daisuke Kawata , Brad K. Gibson

We examine Milky Way-Magellanic Cloud systems selected from the Millennium-II Simulation in order to place the orbits of the Magellanic Clouds in a cosmological context. Our analysis shows that satellites massive enough to be LMC analogs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-09 Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Gurtina Besla , Lars Hernquist

Flat rotation curves follow from elongated Dark Matter distributions, as shown by our earlier competitive fits to the SPARC database. Intending to probe that distortion of the DM halo one needs observables not contained by the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-17 Adriana Bariego-Quintana

The observed dynamics of gas and stars on galactic and larger scales cannot be accounted for by self-gravity, indicating that there are large quantities of unseen matter, or that gravity is non-Newtonian in these regimes. Milgrom's MOdified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Anthony Aguirre , Joop Schaye , Eliot Quataert

After studying the orientation of a warp generated by a companion satellite, we show that the Galactic Warp would be oriented in a different way if the Magellanic Clouds were its cause. We have treated the problem analytically, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Garcia-Ruiz , K. Kuijken , J. Dubinski

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is a gravitational framework designed to explain the astronomical observations in the Universe without the inclusion of particle dark matter. Modified Newtonian Dynamics, in its current form, cannot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Alistair Hodson , Hongsheng Zhao

We establish the connection between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and the dwarf galaxy candidates discovered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) by building a dynamical model of the MC satellite populations, based on an extensive suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Prashin Jethwa , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov

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

Unlike most satellite galaxies in the Local Group that have long lost their gaseous disks, the Magellanic Clouds are gas-rich dwarf galaxies most-likely on their first pericentric passage allowing us to study disk evolution on the smallest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-28 David L. Nidever

Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is one of the most popular alternative theories of dark matter to explain the missing mass problem in galaxies. Although it remains controversial regarding MOND as a fundamental theory, MOND phenomenology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Man Ho Chan , Ka Chung Law

MOdified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) represents a phenomenological alternative to dark matter (DM) for the missing mass problem in galaxies and clusters of galaxies. We analyze the central regions of a local sample of $\sim 220$ early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. Tortora , A. J. Romanowsky , V. F. Cardone , N. R. Napolitano , Ph. Jetzer

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

It has recently been shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a substantial effect on the Milky Way's stellar halo and stellar streams. Here, we explore how deformations of the Milky Way and LMC's dark matter haloes affect stellar…

Recent observations have constrained the orbit and structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), implying a well-constrained pericentric passage about the Milky Way (MW) ~ 50 Myr ago. In this scenario, the LMC's gaseous disk has recently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Munier Salem , Gurtina Besla , Greg Bryan , Mary Putman , Roeland P. van der Marel , Stephanie Tonnesen

MOND-- modified Newtonian dynamics-- may be viewed as an algorithm for calculating the distribution of force in an astronomical object from the observed distribution of baryonic matter. The fact that it works for galaxies is quite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-17 R. H. Sanders

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