4 papers
The LMC Corona Favors a First Passage
Scott Lucchini, Jiwon Jesse Han, Sapna Mishra +1
We use constrained idealized simulations of the LMC/Milky Way interaction to determine if the size of the LMC's gaseous halo (Corona) can be used to distinguish between first and s…
The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud
Gagandeep S. Anand, Alejandro BenÃtez-Llambay, Rachael Beaton +3
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) observations have recently identified a compact HI cloud (hereafter Cloud-9) in the vicinity of the spiral galaxy M94. This i…
A Pre-Infall Magellanic Analog-Corona and Stream formation in the \textsc{HESTIA} cosmological simulations
Robin Chisholm, Elena D'Onghia, Noam Libeskind +3
We identify and investigate a pre-infall analog of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC) in the HESTIA suite of constrained cosmological simulations. The system, dynamic…
Invisible Accretion: Ionized Envelopes of TNG50 HVCs can Sustain Star Formation
Scott Lucchini, Jiwon Jesse Han, Lars Hernquist +2
Galactic high-velocity clouds (HVCs) are known to be complex, multiphase systems consisting of neutral and/or ionized gas moving at high velocities relative to the rotation of the…