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The Magellanic Stream: the Turbulent Wake of the Magellanic Clouds in the Halo of the Galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. S. Mathewson ,
M. P. Schwarz  and
J. D. Murray
D. S. Mathewson
Affiliation:
Mount stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Australian National University
M. P. Schwarz
Affiliation:
Mount stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Australian National University
J. D. Murray
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney
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New observations of the Magellanic Stream were made in December 1976 with the 64-m radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory of CSIRO. The ridges of H I emission of the Stream were traced from near its tip at ℓ = 90°, b = -40° to the Magellanic Clouds. This was the first time that the total length of the Stream was observed with the one system (only possible from the southern hemisphere) and with high spatial (15’ of arc) and velocity (4 km s-1) resolution. The results of this survey are presented in Figures 1 and 2 and the main features are listed below.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 133 - 136
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1977

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