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Orbits of the Magellanic Clouds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Abstract
We use a simple, spherically symmetric model for the Galaxy based on the rotation curve for the inner parts. We extrapolate beyond the rotation curve boundary, assuming a dark corona whose total mass is a model parameter. For each mass value assume we calculate the allowed angular-momentum interval for which a cloud is neither tidally disrupted, nor escapes. On the basis of this investigation we reach a conclusion about the expected mass of the Galaxy.
- Type
- The LMC-SMC-Galaxy System
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 148: The Magellanic Clouds , 1991 , pp. 475 - 477
- Copyright
- Copyright © Kluwer 1991