Metal Abundances in the Magellanic Stream

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May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.8414g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #84.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.972

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report on the serendipitous detection, and subsequent abundance analysis, of the Magellanic Stream, seen in Mg 2 absorption by GHRS toward the background Seyfert galaxy III Zw 2A. Unlike the one previous abundance determination for the Stream (Lu, Savage & Sembach 1994), which sampled a region only marginally outside the LMC--SMC common H 1 envelope, III Zw 2A probes the trailing Stream gas ~ 100(deg) away from LMC (near the MS V concentration, dubbed so by Mathewson, Cleary & Murray 1977). The implications for the origin and evolution of the Magellanic Stream will be commented upon.

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