Proper Motion Study of the Magellanic Clouds using SPM material

Abstract

Absolute proper motions are determined for stars and galaxies to V=17.5 over a 450 square-degree area that encloses both Magellanic Clouds. The proper motions are based on photographic and CCD observations of the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion program, which span over a baseline of 40 years. Multiple, local relative proper motion measures are combined in an overlap solution using photometrically selected Galactic Disk stars to define a global relative system that is then transformed to absolute using external galaxies and Hipparcos stars to tie into the ICRS. The resulting catalog of 1.4 million objects is used to derive the mean absolute proper motions of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud; $(μ_α\cosδ,μ_δ)_{LMC}=(1.89,+0.39)\pm (0.27,0.27)\;\;\{mas yr}^{-1}$ and $(μ_α\cosδ,μ_δ)_{SMC}=(0.98,-1.01)\pm (0.30,0.29)\;\;\{mas yr}^{-1}$. These mean motions are based on best-measured samples of 3822 LMC stars and 964 SMC stars. A dominant portion (0.25 mas yr${}^{-1}$) of the formal errors is due to the estimated uncertainty in the inertial system of the Hipparcos Catalog stars used to anchor the bright end of our proper motion measures. A more precise determination can be made for the proper motion of the SMC {\it relative} to the LMC; $(μ_{α\cosδ},μ_δ)_{SMC-LMC} = (-0.91,-1.49) \pm (0.16,0.15)\;\;\{mas yr}^{-1}$. This differential value is combined with measurements of the proper motion of the LMC taken from the literature to produce new absolute proper-motion determinations for the SMC, as well as an estimate of the total velocity difference of the two clouds to within $\pm$54 kms${}^{-1}$.

50 pages (referee format), 13 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ

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