Production of Milky Way structure by the Magellanic Clouds

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1995-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9507071v1

Astrophys.J. 455 (1995) L31

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1086/309803

Previous attempts at disturbing the galactic disk by the Magellanic Clouds relied on direct tidal forcing. However, by allowing the halo to actively respond rather than remain a rigid contributor to the rotation curve, the Clouds may produce a wake in the halo which then distorts the disk. Recent work reported here suggests that the Magellanic Clouds use this mechanism to produce disk distortions sufficient to account for both the radial location, position angle and sign of the HI warp and observed anomalies in stellar kinematics towards the galactic anticenter and LSR motion.

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