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The Magellanic Stream and the History of the Tidal Interaction between the LMC and SMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

T. Sawa ,
M. Fujimoto  and
Y. Kumai
T. Sawa
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aichi University of Education, Kariya 448-8542, Japan
M. Fujimoto
Affiliation:
Uedayama 4-104, Tenpaku, Nagoya 468-0001, Japan
Y. Kumai
Affiliation:
Faculty of Commerce, Kumamoto Gakuen University, Kumamoto 862-8680, Japan

Abstract

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Adopting observed proper motions of the MC's and cluster formation histories of the LMC as observational constraints, we found a new binary orbit for the LMC and SMC in which the geometry and kinematics of the Magellanic Stream are well reproduced. In this orbit, the LMC and SMC experienced very close encouters 0.2 and 3 Gyr ago.

Type
Part 7. Tidal Interactions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 499 - 500
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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