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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 643, Issue 2, Pages 881-896Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/503091
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Galaxy : disk; Galaxy : kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy : structure; ISM : structure; radio lines : general
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We examine the outer Galactic H I disk for deviations from the b = 0 degrees plane by constructing maps of disk surface density, mean height, and thickness. We find that the Galactic warp is well described by a vertical offset plus two Fourier modes of frequency m = 1 and 2, all of which grow with galactocentric radius. Adding the m = 2 mode accounts for the large asymmetry between the northern and southern warps. We use a Morlet wavelet transform to investigate the spatial and frequency localization of higher frequency modes; these modes are often referred to as scalloping.'' We find that the m = 10 and 15 scalloping modes are well above the noise, but localized; this suggests that the scalloping does not pervade the whole disk, but only local regions.
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