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The Magellanic Cloud Interaction: Interpretation and Constraints from Observations of Carbon Stars as “Test Particles”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

William Kunkel  and
Serge Demers
William Kunkel
Affiliation:
Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, La Serena, Chile
Serge Demers
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Montréal, P.Q., Canada

Abstract

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Since gravity alone acts on them, and their evolutionary age restricts sampling to “mid-life”, carbon stars are examined as tracers of recent dynamical evolution of the Magellanic Clouds. Ablation processes modify the distribution of HI, and velocity outliers reflect recent tidal interactios.

Type
Part 7. Tidal Interactions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 492 - 496
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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