High-Velocity Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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May 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...534l..51g&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 534, Issue 1, pp. L51-L52.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds, Stars: Supernovae: Individual: Alphanumeric: Sn 1987A

Scientific paper

Light-echo measurements show that SN 1987A is 425 pc behind the LMC disk. It is continuing to move away from the disk at 18 km s-1. Thus, it has been suggested that SN 1987A was ejected from the LMC disk. However, SN 1987A is a member of a star cluster, so this entire cluster would have to have been ejected from the disk. We show that the cluster was formed in the LMC disk, with a velocity perpendicular to the disk of about 50 km s-1. Such high-velocity formation of a star cluster is unusual, having no known counterpart in the Milky Way.

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