The Magellanic stream: circumnavigating the galaxy

E D'Onghia, AJ Fox - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The Magellanic Clouds are surrounded by an extended network of gaseous structures. Chief
among these is the Magellanic Stream, an interwoven tail of filaments trailing the Clouds in …

Galaxy disks

PC Van der Kruit, KC Freeman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The disks of disk galaxies contain a substantial fraction of their baryonic matter and angular
momentum, and much of the evolutionary activity in these galaxies, such as the formation of …

The observed properties of dwarf galaxies in and around the Local Group

AW McConnachie - The Astronomical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Positional, structural, and dynamical parameters for all dwarf galaxies in and around the
Local Group are presented, and various aspects of our observational understanding of this …

The close binary fraction of solar-type stars is strongly anticorrelated with metallicity

M Moe, KM Kratter, C Badenes - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Close Binary Fraction of Solar-type Stars Is Strongly Anticorrelated with Metallicity -
IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use of cookies …

The star formation history of the large magellanic cloud

J Harris, D Zaritsky - The Astronomical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first ever global, spatially resolved reconstruction of the star formation history
(SFH) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on the application of our StarFISH …

The acs nearby galaxy survey treasury. VIII. the global star formation histories of 60 dwarf galaxies in the local volume

DR Weisz, JJ Dalcanton, BF Williams… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present uniformly measured star formation histories (SFHs) of 60 nearby (D≲ 4 Mpc)
dwarf galaxies based on color–magnitude diagrams of resolved stellar populations from …

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 VMC survey-I. Strategy and first data

MRL Cioni, G Clementini, L Girardi… - Astronomy & …, 2011 - aanda.org
Context. The new VISual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has started
operations. Over its first five years it will be collecting data for six public surveys, one of …

The role of dwarf galaxy interactions in shaping the Magellanic System and implications for Magellanic Irregulars

G Besla, N Kallivayalil, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We present a novel pair of numerical models of the interaction history between the Large
and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) and our Milky Way (MW) in light …

The bifurcated age–metallicity relation of Milky Way globular clusters and its implications for the accretion history of the galaxy

R Leaman, DA VandenBerg… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We use recently derived ages for 61 Milky Way (MW) globular clusters (GCs) to show that
their age–metallicity relation (AMR) can be divided into two distinct, parallel sequences at …