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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 512, Issue 1, Pages 1169-1176Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac426
Keywords
Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure; galaxies: spiral
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- Israel Science Foundation
- United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
- Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Israel
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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This study explains the relationship between the spiral structure in the Milky Way disc and the variation in velocity of young stars, stellar clusters, and interstellar gas by considering the oscillating density-wave pattern. The authors suggest new estimates of the parameters affected by small-amplitude density waves and the systematic motion of clusters due to the spiral arms, as well as the geometrical and dynamical parameters of the waves.
Following Lin and Shu, the spiral structure in the Milky Way disc is considered as an oscillating density-wave pattern. As such, regular enhancements in density are relatedly linked to systematic variations in velocity of young stars and stellar clusters, and interstellar gas. We explain measured line-of-sight velocities of 252 open clusters with ages <100 Myr of Tarricq et al. in the 3-kpc-scale solar neighbourhood in terms of a density wave. New estimates of the parameters of solar peculiar motion and Galactic differential rotation corrected for the effects of small-amplitude density waves, the radial and tangential components of systematic motion of clusters due to the spiral arms as well as the geometrical and dynamical parameters of the waves are suggested.
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