REVISITING THE ROLE OF M31 IN THE DYNAMICAL HISTORY OF THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

REVISITING THE ROLE OF M31 IN THE DYNAMICAL HISTORY OF THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

We study the dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a model for the Local Group whose mass is constrained using the timing argument/two-body limit of the action principle. The goal is to evaluate the role of M31 in generating the high angular momentum orbit of the Clouds, a puzzle that has only been e...

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Main Authors: Kallivayalil, Nitya, Besla, Gurtina, Sanderson, Robyn Ellyn, Alcock, Charles
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96202
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-3297

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96202
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-3297

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