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Fig. 8.
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Distance from the LMC -as a function of look-back time for 100 Monte-Carlo realisations of the galaxies’s orbit. The horizontal solid and dashed lines, labelled rs and rt, correspond to the scale and truncation radius of the initial LMC potential, of 10.84 kpc and 108.4 kpc, respectively.
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