Kinematics and dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds
Abstract
The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and other Magellanic systems are characterized dynamically and kinematically in a review of recent theoretical and observational investigations. Topics examined include the structure and dynamics of Magellanic systems in general (pairing, asymmetrical barred-spiral configuration, displaced rotation curve, and intrinsic flattening less than that of Sd galaxies); model simulations of the dynamics of isolated Magellanic systems; the interactions among the Galaxy, the LMC, and the SMC; dark matter in NGC 3109; and the kinematic study of LMC globular clusters of Freeman et al. (1983), which finds older and younger rotating disks with different lines of nodes.
- Publication:
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Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds
- Pub Date:
- September 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0074180900040079
- Bibcode:
- 1984IAUS..108..107F
- Keywords:
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- Celestial Mechanics;
- Galactic Rotation;
- Galactic Structure;
- Magellanic Clouds;
- Dark Matter;
- Globular Clusters;
- Kinematics;
- Mass Distribution;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Astrophysics