A low density-wave spiral pattern speed, from the tracer separations (age gradient) across a spiral arm in the Milky Way
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2021-07-14 v1
Abstract
We observe the density wave angular pattern speed OMEGA-p to be near 12 to 17 km / s / kpc, by the separation between a typical optical HII region (from the spiral arm dust lane) and using a HII evolution time model to yield its relative speed, and independently by the separation between a typical radio maser (from the spiral arm dust lane) with a maser model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.15761,
title = {A low density-wave spiral pattern speed, from the tracer separations (age gradient) across a spiral arm in the Milky Way},
author = {Jacques P Vallee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15761},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
18 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, 1 equation, 46 references (accepted for publication)