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麦哲伦旋臂高速云与Milky Way盘的相互作用

An Interaction of a Magellanic Leading Arm High Velocity Cloud with the Milky Way Disk

N. M. McClure-Griffiths, L. Staveley-Smith, F. J. Lockman, M. R. Calabretta, H. A. Ford, P. M. W. Kalberla, T. Murphy, H. Nakanishi, D. J. Pisano

摘要:

麦哲伦星系的主导臂是潮汐形成的HI特征,从麦哲伦云延伸出$\sim 60\arcdeg$,位于其运动方向的前方。利用来自银河系全天巡天(GASS)的氢原子(HI)数据,再加上来自澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列的数据,我们发现了引导臂中的云与引导臂穿过银河平面的银河圆盘之间相互作用的证据。这种相互作用发生在银河系自转所允许的速度下,这使我们能够推导出到星云的运动学距离为21 kpc,这表明主导臂以$R\approx 17$ kpc的银河系半径穿过银道面。

英文摘要:

The Leading Arm of the Magellanic System is a tidally formed HI feature extending $\sim 60\arcdeg$ from the Magellanic Clouds ahead of their direction of motion. Using atomic hydrogen (HI) data from the Galactic All Sky-Survey (GASS), supplemented with data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array, we have found evidence for an interaction between a cloud in the Leading Arm and the Galactic disk where the Leading Arm crosses the Galactic plane. The interaction occurs at velocities permitted by Galactic rotation, which allows us to derive a kinematic distance to the cloud of 21 kpc, suggesting that the Leading Arm crosses the Galactic Plane at a Galactic radius of $R\approx 17$ kpc.

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