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The Magellanic Clouds, Past, Present and Future - A Summary of IAU Symposium No. 190

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh*
Affiliation:
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics National Research Council of Canada 5071 West Saanich Road Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8X 4M6

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Important problems to which we would like to find answers are:

  1. • What are the distances to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC)?

  2. • What is the present distribution of stars, gas and dark matter in the Clouds, and how did it evolve?

  3. • How, and where, did the Magellanic Clouds form, and how have their orbits evolved?

  4. • Finally the recent discovery of numerous microlensing events in the Clouds provides answers to questions that we have only recently started to ask.

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Part 9. Summary
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 569 - 578
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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