All-sky Kinematics of the Distant Halo: The Reflex Response to the LMC

All-sky Kinematics of the Distant Halo: The Reflex Response to the LMC

The infall of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is predicted to displace the inner Milky Way (MW), imprinting an apparent “reflex motion” on the observed velocities of distant halo stars. We construct the largest all-sky spectroscopic data set of luminous red giant stars from 50–160 kpc, including a...

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Main Authors: Vedant Chandra, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, Nicolas Garavito-Camargo, Chervin Laporte, Ana Bonaca, Phillip A. Cargile, Emily Cunningham, Jiwon Jesse Han, Benjamin D. Johnson, Hans-Walter Rix, Yuan-Sen Ting, Rebecca Woody, Dennis Zaritsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Milky Way stellar halo
Stellar kinematics
Large Magellanic Cloud
Milky Way dynamics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/addab6
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