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Warped and Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in Three Dimensions Using Red Clump Stars

  • Authors: Slater J. Oden, David L. Nidever, Joshua Povick, Pol Massana, Yumi Choi, Roeland P. van der Marel, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Joanna Sakowska, Knut A. G. Olsen, Lara Cullinane, Danny Horta, Andres Almeida, J. A. Carballo-Bello, D. Crnojević, P. S. Ferguson, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, G. E. Medina, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, M. Navabi, A. B. Pace, A. H. Riley, Guy S. Stringfellow, A. K. Vivas, David J. James

Slater J. Oden et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1003 .

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Caption: Figure 11.

Radial variation of the LMC disk geometry. Left: inclination angle i as a function of galactocentric radius from the LMC center (in degrees). Right: PA of the LON, θ, as a function of the same radius. Black solid lines show measurements from this work using elliptical annuli: 1° wide from 0° to 8° and 2° wide from 8° to 14°. Red solid lines indicate circular-area fits at each radius. The black (red) shaded regions denote the 1σ uncertainties for our reported i (θ) values. For comparison, previously published measurements from Y. Choi et al. (2018a) are overplotted as dashed lines, and those from S. Saroon & S. Subramanian (2022) as dotted lines, using both annular and circular fitting approaches as labeled.

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