Regular distribution of star formation regions along the spiral arms and rings of disk galaxies
A. Gusev,
E. Shimanovskaya
Abstract:Recent studies have indicated that the spatial regularity in the distribution of young stellar population along the spiral arms and rings of galaxies, which was previously thought to be uncommon, is actually a fairly common occurrence. Spatial regularity has been found in the spiral arms and rings of galaxies with different morphologies, from lenticular to extremely late-type spiral. The characteristic regularity scale is equal to 350–500 pc or a multiple of that in all the galaxies studied. Theoretical models… Show more
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