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An X-ray-quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud

Nature Astronomy, 2022
Stellar-mass black holes are the final remnants of stars born with more than 15 solar masses. Billions are expected to reside in the Local Group, yet only a few are known, mostly detected through X-rays emitted as they accrete material from a companion ...
T. Shenar, H. Sana, L. Mahy, K. El-Badry, P. Marchant, N. Langer, C. Hawcroft, M. Fabry, K. Sen, L. Almeida, M. Abdul-Masih, J. Bodensteiner, P. Crowther, M. Gieles, M. Gromadzki, V. Hénault-Brunet, A. Herrero, A. D. Koter, P. Iwanek, S. Kozłowski, D. Lennon, J. M. Apellániz, P. Mróz, A. Moffat, A. Picco, P. Pietrukowicz, R. Poleski, K. Rybicki, F. Schneider, D. Skowron, J. Skowron, I. Soszyński, M. Szymański, S. Toonen, A. Udalski, K. Ulaczyk, J. Vink, M. Wrona   +37 more
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All-sky dynamical response of the Galactic halo to the Large Magellanic Cloud

Nature, 2021
Gravitational interactions between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the stellar and dark matter halo of the Milky Way are expected to give rise to disequilibrium phenomena in the outer Milky Way1–7. A local wake is predicted to trail the orbit of the
C. Conroy, R. Naidu, N. Garavito-Camargo, G. Besla, D. Zaritsky, A. Bonaca, Benjamin D. Johnson   +6 more
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An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent

Nature, 2013
In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to determine the Hubble constant to an accuracy of three per cent or better. At present, its uncertainty is dominated by the uncertainty in the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which, being ...
G. Pietrzyński, G. Pietrzyński, D. Graczyk, W. Gieren, I. Thompson, B. Pilecki, B. Pilecki, A. Udalski, I. Soszyński, S. Kozłowski, P. Konorski, K. Suchomska, G. Bono, P. Moroni, S. Villanova, N. Nardetto, F. Bresolin, R. Kudritzki, J. Storm, A. Gallenne, R. Smolec, D. Minniti, M. Kubiak, M. Szymański, R. Poleski, R. Poleski, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, P. Pietrukowicz, M. Górski, P. Karczmarek   +30 more
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Detection of the Milky Way reflex motion due to the Large Magellanic Cloud infall

Nature Astronomy, 2020
The Large Magellanic Cloud is the most massive satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, with an estimated mass exceeding a tenth of the mass of the Milky Way1–5.
M. Petersen, J. Peñarrubia
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The Tilt of the Large Magellanic Cloud

International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1979
Photoelectric light curves have been obtained for 20 Cepheids, 12 on the far western side of the LMC and 8 on the far eastern side. The difference between the moduli of the two groups is 0.12 ± 0.05 mag., the western side being 3 kpc more distant than the eastern.
R. R. Shobbrook, S. C. B. Gascoigne
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HI clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2006
AbstractWe discuss the results of HI survey of the LMC and a catalog of HI clouds.
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On the inclination of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1980
The inclination of the Large Magellanic Cloud recently derived from residuals of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation is shown to be in good agreement with the previous determinations by this and other methods. The weighted mean value of four different methods, i = 27.2 plus or minus 2.4 deg, confirms the previously adopted value.
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The supernova in the large magellanic cloud

Contemporary Physics, 1987
Abstract The appearance in February 1987 of a naked-eye supernova in a nearby galaxy to our own was the first supernova of this brightness for 383 years. Neutrinos detected from the supernova marked the start of the subject of neutrino astronomy. The light from the star was a uniquely bright probe to the regions of interstellar space, in our Galaxy and
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