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The Dynamics of the Magellanic Stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Alan E. Wright*
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, Sydney

Extract

In this talk I shall describe briefly some of the theoretical ideas of the origin of the Magellanic Stream and then give a more personal view of the results of model fitting.

The Magellanic Stream definitely seems to be an extragalactic feature: the apparent connection of the Stream to the Magellanic Clouds and the continuity of the radial velocity profiles make it highly implausible that the Stream is a local foreground feature.

Type
Invited Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1976

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