A New Look at the Large-Scale HI Structure of the LMC

Details A New Look at the Large-Scale HI Structure of the LMC A New Look at the Large-Scale HI Structure of the LMC

2002-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210501v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.339:87,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by MNRAS, 19 pages, 13 figurs, 21 eps files, full resolution paper (1.4 M) available at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~l

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06146.x

We present a Parkes multibeam \HI survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This survey, which is sensitive to spatial structure in the range 200 pc to 10 kpc, complements the Australia Telescope Compact survey, which is sensitive to structure in the range 15 pc to 500 pc. With an rms column density sensitivity of 8 x 10^16/cm^2 for narrow lines and 4 x 10^17/cm^2 for typical linewidths of 40 km/s, emission is found to be extensive well beyond the main body of the LMC. Arm-like features extend from the LMC to join the Magellanic Bridge and the Leading Arm, a forward counterpart to the Magellanic Stream. These features, whilst not as dramatic as those in the SMC, appear to have a common origin in the Galactic tidal field, in agreement with recent 2MASS and DENIS results for the stellar population. The diffuse gas which surrounds the LMC, particularly at pa's 90 to 330 deg, appears to be loosely associated with tidal features, but loosening by the ram pressure of tenuous Galactic halo gas against the outer parts of the LMC cannot be discounted. High-velocity clouds, which lie between the Galaxy and the LMC in velocity and which appear in the UV spectra of some LMC stars, are found to be associated with the LMC if their heliocentric velocity exceeds about +100 km/s. They are possibly the product of energetic outflows from the LMC disk. The HI mass of the LMC is found to be (4.8+/-0.2) x 10^8 Msun (for an assumed distance of 50 kpc), substantially more than previous recent measurements.

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