Astrolunch - 29th March

Kenji Bekki :
The Magellanic Inferno: Triggered Star Formation in the Last Magellanic Collision

Recent computer simulations of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) have demonstrated that (1) the Clouds collided about 0.2 Gyr ago and (2) the collision triggered massive star formation in the LMC. The last Magellanic collision is demonstrated to form the Magellanic bridge, new star clusters both in the LMC and the SMC, and asymmetric HI spirals. Thus we discuss how the last collision changed the LMC's life for ever.