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Ram pressure induced star formation. Chiara Mastropietro LMU Munich A. Burkert (LMU) & B.Moore (UniZH). The Magellanic Clouds and dSph satellites. Vienna, April 10-12. LMC Parkes HI survey (Stavely-Smith et al. 2003). HI TIDAL FEATURES ??. 20 kpc. 20 kpc.
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Ram pressure induced star formation Chiara Mastropietro LMU Munich A. Burkert (LMU) & B.Moore (UniZH) The Magellanic Clouds and dSph satellites. Vienna, April 10-12
HI TIDAL FEATURES ?? 20 kpc 20 kpc Smooth old stars distribution (near IR) out to 9 kpc No signs of spiral arms (van der Marel 2001)
Age < 0.5 Gyr Age < 1 Gyr Cioni et al. 2000 (DENIS survey)
X-ray emission (ROSAT) Blondiau et al. 1997 De Boer et al. 1997Bow shock induced star formation
NGC 5746 Chandra X-ray detection T~0.4 keV (Pedersen et al. 2006) OVI absorption lines through the Galactic halo (Sembach et al. 2002)
Mastropietro et al. 2004 Putman et al. 2002
Mastropietro, Burkert & Moore in prep. c = 9.5 v200 = 40 km/s = 0.074 Mdisk/Mdark = 0.1 Mgas = 0.5 Mdisk RHI = 8 Rd Q = 3 Npart = 750000 Nhot =2e6