The simulations were started at t = -3.5 Gyr and integrated to t = 1 Gyr corresponding to
tanim = 0 Gyr and tanim = 4.5 Gyr in the animated gif film.
The animation shows the LMC halo (white) and LMC disk (red) moving through the halo of our Milky Way. The red
cross at the center of the coordinate system marks the Milky Way and the underlying red curve represents the
one-particle orbit which differs only slightly from the real LMC orbit.
As the LMC approaches the Milky Way the halo is apparently deformed and the disk is becoming elliptical.
This roughly occurs after it passes the first perigalacticon. The halo mass torn out by the interaction
forms two big tails whereas the disk does not lose any mass. After the first perigalactic passage the stellar disk
becomes round again. When passing through the second perigalacticon the two DM-tails of the halo are already
very extended and once again the disk is significantly elongated. At the end of the simulation the DM
of the LMC is smeared out over a large region of the Milky Way while the disk hardly loses matter.
The time evolution of the stellar disk and the DM halo can also be displayed in the
LMC coordinate system.
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