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Orbits of the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Slobodan Ninkovic  and
Miroslav Filipovic
Slobodan Ninkovic
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Belgrade, Volgina 7, Yugoslavia
Miroslav Filipovic
Affiliation:
Science Centre of Petnica, c/- Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Belgrade, Volgina 7, Yugoslavia

Abstract

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We use a simple, spherically symmetric model for the Galaxy based on the rotation curve for the inner parts. We extrapolate beyond the rotation curve boundary, assuming a dark corona whose total mass is a model parameter. For each mass value assume we calculate the allowed angular-momentum interval for which a cloud is neither tidally disrupted, nor escapes. On the basis of this investigation we reach a conclusion about the expected mass of the Galaxy.

Type
The LMC-SMC-Galaxy System
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 148: The Magellanic Clouds , 1991 , pp. 475 - 477
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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