| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv862 |
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| Author | Search for: Vallée, Jacques P.1 |
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| Name affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. National Science Infrastructure
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Journal title | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
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| ISSN | 0035-8711 |
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| Volume | 450 |
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| Issue | 4 |
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| Pages | 4277–4284 |
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| Subject | methods: statistical; ISM: general; ISM: structure; Galaxy: disc; Galaxy:structure; galaxies: spiral |
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| Abstract | There are many published values for the pitch angle of individual spiral arms, and their wide distribution (from -3° to -28°) begs for various attempts for a single value. Each of four statistical methods used here yields a mean pitch angle in a small range, between -12° and -14° (Table 7, Fig. 2). The final result of our meta-analysis yields a mean global pitch angle in the Milky Way's spiral arms of -13.1° ± 0.6°. |
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| Publication date | 2015-05-21 |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 21276958 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Report a correction | Report a correction |
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Record identifier | e0fdc6a5-242e-4122-9be7-22f63dff99f6 | | Record created | 2015-11-10 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-22 |
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