Martin D. Weinberg
Published 1998-11-12Version 1
The satellite-disk interaction provides limits on halo properties in two ways: (1) physical arguments motivate the excitation of observable Galactic disk structure in the presence of a massive halo, although precise limits on halo parameters are scenario-dependent; (2) conversely, the Milky Way as a whole has significant dynamical effect on LMC structure and this interaction also leads to halo limits. Together, these scenarios give strong corroboration of our current gravitational mass estimates and suggests a rapidly evolving LMC.
Comments: 12 pages, 8 Postscript figures, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in the Third Stromlo Symposium: The Galactic Halo (ASP Conference Series), in press. HTML version available at: http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/~weinberg/stromlo
Spectroscopy of MACHO 97-SMC-1: self-lensing within the SMC
ORFEUS II echelle spectra : H_2 measurements in the Magellanic Clouds
Clump Distance to the Magellanic Clouds and Anomalous Colors in the Galactic Bulge
