Third-epoch Magellanic Cloud proper motions. I. Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3 data and orbit implications

N Kallivayalil, RP Van der Marel, G Besla… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present proper motions for the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC)
based on three epochs of Hubble Space Telescope data, spanning a∼ 7 yr baseline, and …

Third-epoch Magellanic Cloud proper motions. II. The Large Magellanic Cloud rotation field in three dimensions

RP Van der Marel, N Kallivayalil - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first detailed assessment of the large-scale rotation of any galaxy based on
full three-dimensional velocity measurements. We do this for the LMC by combining our …

The masses of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies

LL Watkins, NW Evans, JH An - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We present a family of robust tracer mass estimators to compute the enclosed mass of
galaxy haloes from samples of discrete positional and kinematical data of tracers, such as …

Gaia universe model snapshot-a statistical analysis of the expected contents of the gaia catalogue

AC Robin, X Luri, C Reylé, Y Isasi, E Grux… - Astronomy & …, 2012 - aanda.org
Context. This study has been developed in the framework of the computational simulations
that are executed for the preparation of the ESA Gaia astrometric mission. Aims. We focus on …

The tidal origin of the magellanic stream and the possibility of a stellar counterpart

JD Diaz, K Bekki - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an N-body model that reproduces the morphology and kinematics of the
Magellanic Stream (MS), a vast neutral hydrogen (H i) structure that trails behind the Large …

Hubble Space Telescope proper motion (HSTPROMO) catalogs of galactic globular cluster. VI. Improved data reduction and internal-kinematic analysis of NGC 362

M Libralato, A Bellini, RP Van Der Marel… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved data-reduction technique to obtain high-precision proper motions
(PMs) of globular clusters (GCs) using Hubble Space Telescope data. The new reduction is …

Revealing the tidal scars of the Small Magellanic Cloud

M De Leo, R Carrera, NED Noël, JI Read… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Due to their close proximity, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC) provide
natural laboratories for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. With the goal of …

The VMC survey-IV. The LMC star formation history and disk geometry from four VMC tiles

S Rubele, L Kerber, L Girardi, MR Cioni… - Astronomy & …, 2012 - aanda.org
We derive the star formation history (SFH) for several regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud
(LMC), using deep near-infrared data from the VISTA near-infrared YJK s survey of the …

The ASKAP-EMU Early Science Project: 888 MHz radio continuum survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud

CM Pennock, JT Van Loon, MD Filipović… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present an analysis of a new 120 deg2 radio continuum image of the Large Magellanic
Cloud (LMC) at 888 MHz with a bandwidth of 288 MHz and beam size of 13 9× 12 1 from the …

The Magellanic stream system. I. Ram-pressure tails and the relics of the collision between the Magellanic clouds

F Hammer, YB Yang, H Flores, M Puech… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed the Magellanic Stream (MS) using the deepest and the most resolved H i
survey of the Southern Hemisphere (the Galactic All-Sky Survey). The overall Stream is …