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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 386, Issue 2, Pages 826-834Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13012.x
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stars : early-type; stars : fundamental parameters; galaxies : kinematics and dynamics; Magellanic Clouds
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We present radial velocities for 2045 stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), obtained from the 2dF survey by Evans et al. The great majority of these stars are of OBA type, tracing the dynamics of the young stellar population. Dividing the sample into ad hoc 'bar' and 'wing' samples (north and south, respectively, of the line: delta = -77 degrees 50' + [4 alpha]', where alpha is the right ascension in minutes of time) we find that the velocities in the SMC bar show a gradient of 26.3 +/- 1.6 km s(-1) deg(-1) at a position angle of 126 degrees +/- 4 degrees. The derived gradient in the bar is robust to the adopted line of demarcation between the two samples. The largest redshifts are found in the SMC wing, in which the velocity distribution appears distinct from that in the bar, most probably a consequence of the interaction between the Magellanic Clouds that is predicted to have occurred 0.2 Gyr ago. The mean velocity for all stars in the sample is +172.0 +/- 0.2 km s(-1) (redshifted by similar to 20 km s(-1) when compared to published results for older populations), with a velocity dispersion of 30 km s(-1).
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