SIMULATIONS OF THE MAGELLANIC STREAM IN A FIRST INFALL SCENARIO
Recent high-precision proper motions from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are either on their first passage or on an eccentric long period (>6 Gyr) orbit about the Milky Way (MW). This differs markedly from the canonical pi...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society,
2015-03-05T17:00:28Z.
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