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Using proper motion measurements from Gaia DR2, we probe the origin of 26 previously known hypervelocity stars (HVSs) around the Milky Way. We find that a significant fraction of these stars have a high probability of originating close to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Denis Erkal , Douglas Boubert , Alessia Gualandris , N. Wyn Evans , Fabio Antonini

We present the germ of a new model for High Velocity Clouds, derived from the idea that the dark matter halo of our Galaxy is in the form of cold, planetary-mass gas clouds. In this picture HVCs arise as a result of disruptive collisions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Walker , Mark Wardle

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

I review our understanding of the structure and kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with a particular focus on recent results. This is an important topic, given the status of the LMC as a benchmark for studies of microlensing,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roeland P. van der Marel

We observed two compact high-velocity clouds HVC 291+26+195 and HVC 297+09+253 to analyse their structure, dynamics, and physical parameters. In both cases there is evidence for an association with the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Clouds.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nadya Ben Bekhti , Christian Bruens , Juergen Kerp , Tobias Westmeier

The first results from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) provide a spectacular view of the global HI distribution in the vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds and the southern Milky Way. A 2400 square degree mosaic around the South…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Putman , B. K. Gibson , L. Staveley-Smith

Observations with the Green Bank Telescope of 21cm HI emission from the high-velocity cloud Complex H suggest that it is interacting with the Milky Way. A model in which the cloud is a satellite of the Galaxy in an inclined, retrograde…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman

We predict and compare the distributions and properties of hyper-velocity stars (HVSs) ejected from the centres of the Milky Way (MW) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In our model, HVSs are ejected at a constant rate -- equal in both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Fraser A. Evans , Tommaso Marchetti , Elena Maria Rossi , Josephine F. W. Baggen , Sanne Bloot

The Magellanic Stream, a tidal tail of diffuse gas falling onto the Milky Way, formed by interactions between the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, is primarily composed of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI). The deficiency of dust and the…

The Magellanic System represents one of the best places to study the formation and evolution of galaxies. Photometric surveys of various depths, areas and wavelengths have had a significant impact on our understanding of the system;…

We investigate the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) interacting with the Galaxy and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical simulations. Our numerical models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bekki , M. Chiba

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 High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed in the Galactic neighbourhood, have been proposed to be remnants of the formation of the galaxies in the Local Group, having distances, and thus masses, predominantly of dark matter, considerably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lopez-Corredoira , J. E. Beckman , E. Casuso

Recent observational and theoretical studies on the three-dimensional (3D) space motions of the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) have strongly suggested that the latest proper motion measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenji Bekki

High velocity gas that does not conform to Galactic rotation is observed throughout the Galaxy's halo. One component of this gas, HI high velocity clouds (HVCs), have attracted attention since their discovery in the 1960s and remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-24 Asger Grønnow , Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are composed of neutral hydrogen (HI) moving at velocities that deviate from the general rotational motion of the Milky Way. Currently, the origins of the HVCs remain poorly known due to the difficulty in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiao-Lan Liu , Jin-Long Xu , Peng Jiang , Ming Zhu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Naiping Yu , Ye Xu , Xin Guan , Jun-Jie Wang

Recent proper motion measurements of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) by Kallivayalil et al (2006a,b) suggest that the 3D velocities of the Clouds are substantially higher (~100 km/s) than previously…

The Magellanic Clouds have lost most of their gas during their passage by the Milky Way, a property that has never been successfully modeled. Here we use accurate and mesh-free hydrodynamic simulations to reproduce the Magellanic Stream and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-13 Jianling Wang , Francois Hammer , Yanbin Yang , Vincenzo Ripepi , Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , Mathieu Puech , Hector Flores

We report the detection of a largely ionized very-high velocity cloud (VHVC; $v_{\rm LSR}\sim-350$ km/s) toward M33 with the Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origin Spectrograph. The VHVC is detected in OI, CII, SiII, and SiIII absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Y. Zheng , J. K. Werk , J. E. G. Peek , M. E. Putman

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) exhibits vigorous high-mass star formation, including the HII regions 30~Dor that is the most active site of star formation in the local group. The present paper focuses on the Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) in…