Wednesday, December 7, 2011

1112.1188 (Katerina Bartoskova et al.)

Orbits of LMC/SMC with recent ground-based proper motions    [PDF]

Katerina Bartoskova, Bruno Jungwiert, Adam Ruzicka, Edgardo Costa
In recent years, with new ground-based and HST measurements of proper motions of the Magellanic Clouds being published, a need of a reanalysis of possible orbital history has arisen. As complementary to other studies, we present a partial examination of the parameter space -- aimed at exploring the uncertainties in the proper motions of both Clouds, taking into account the updated values of Galactic constants and Solar motion, which kinematically and dynamically influence the orbits of the satellites. In the chosen setup of the study, none of the binding scenarios of this pair could be neglected.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1188

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