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Dynamics of the Magellanic Clouds in a LCDM Universe
Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Gurtina Besla, Lars Hernquist
We examine Milky Way-Magellanic Cloud systems selected from the Millennium-II Simulation in order to place the orbits of the Magellanic Clouds in a cosmological context. Our analys…
Simulations of the Magellanic Stream in a First Infall Scenario
Gurtina Besla, Nitya Kallivayalil, Lars Hernquist +3
Recent high precision proper motions from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) suggest that the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) are either on their first…
Spiral-Induced Star Formation in the Outer Disks of Galaxies
Stephanie J. Bush, T. J. Cox, Christopher C. Hayward +3
The outer regions of galactic disks have received increased attention since ultraviolet observations with GALEX demonstrated that nearly 30% of galaxies have UV emission beyond the…