The warp of the Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002mnras.337..459g&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 337, Issue 2, pp. 459-469.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxy: Structure, Galaxies: Kinematics And Dynamics, Magellanic Clouds

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We study the possibility that the Galactic warp is caused by the tides of the Magellanic clouds. Using a specialized N-body particle+ring code we investigate the role of extra torques on the disc induced by gravitational wakes in the dark halo created by the Large Magellanic Cloud. We find that neither the amplitude nor the orientation of the resulting warp agrees with observations.

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