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Caption: Figure 12.
z-coordinate map in the on-sky Cartesian coordinate frame, color coded by the vertical coordinate z (in kiloparsecs). The map is centered on our newly derived RC LMC center (α, δ) = (﹩80\mathop{.}\limits^{^\circ }60﹩, ﹩-69\mathop{.}\limits^{^\circ }80﹩) and a fiducial distance of D0 = 49.15 kpc. Concentric dashed circles indicate angular separations of 7° (∼6 kpc), 10° (∼9 kpc), and 13° (∼11.4 kpc) from the LMC center. A prominent central spiral feature is visible in red, but rapidly dissipates due to the LMC’s disk inclination. At radii ≳ 7°, the peripheral warp becomes strikingly apparent in the vertical structure as blue color.
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