Re-examination of the possible tidal stream in front of the LMC

Details Re-examination of the possible tidal stream in front of the LMC Re-examination of the possible tidal stream in front of the LMC

1998-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811062v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/311749

It has recently been suggested that the stars in a vertical extension of the red clump feature seen in LMC color-magnitude diagrams could belong to a tidal stream of material located in front of that galaxy. If this claim is correct, this foreground concentration of stars could contribute significantly to the rate of gravitational microlensing events observed in the LMC microlensing experiments. Here we present radial velocity measurements of stars in this so-called ``vertical red clump'' (VRC) population. The observed stellar sample, it transpires, has typical LMC kinematics. It is shown that it is improbable that an intervening tidal stream should have the same distribution of radial velocities as the LMC, which is consistent with an earlier study that showed that the VRC feature is more likely a young stellar population in the main body of that galaxy. However, the kinematic data do not discriminate against the possibility that the VRC is an LMC halo population.

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