2018
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/18/12/146
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The spiral structure of the Milky Way

Abstract: The morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way are long-standing problems in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with different tracers used to solve this puzzle. The astrometry of Galactic sources is gradually alleviating this difficult situation caused mainly by large distance uncertainties, as we can currently obtain accurate parallaxes (a few µas) and proper motions (≈1 km s −1 ) by using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). On the other hand, the … Show more

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“…(e.g., Russeil 2003;Hou & Han 2014). Until now, many approaches have been pur- sued to decipher the morphology of the Galaxy spiral arms (e.g., see Xu & Hou 2018a;Shen & Zheng 2020, for reviews). There is a general consensus that a global spiral pattern exists in the Galactic disk between Galactocentric distance of about 3 and 10 kpc.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(e.g., Russeil 2003;Hou & Han 2014). Until now, many approaches have been pur- sued to decipher the morphology of the Galaxy spiral arms (e.g., see Xu & Hou 2018a;Shen & Zheng 2020, for reviews). There is a general consensus that a global spiral pattern exists in the Galactic disk between Galactocentric distance of about 3 and 10 kpc.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Molecular cloud distances are essential to the study of star formation (McKee & Ostriker 2007;Heyer & Dame 2015;Foster & Brunt 2015;Motte et al 2018) and the Galactic structure (Dame et al 2001;Xu et al 2016Xu et al , 2018a. They are raw materials from which new stars form (Kennicutt & Evans 2012) and are spiral arm tracers (Dame et al 2001;Donovan Meyer et al 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Burton (1971) sugiere que estosúltimos, pueden imitar o enmascarar las grandes diferencias en densidad. De las observaciones del Hi podemos inferir que si bien su distribución se extiende más allá del disco Galáctico, ocupando un espacio de hasta 35 kpc desde el centro (Xu et al, 2018); su estudio no realiza un aporte en términos del diseño en espiral, aunque permite poner límites a la morfología y cinemática del mismo.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…En su trabajo los cúmulos más jóvenes se encuentran estrechamente distribuidos cerca del plano Galáctico trazando los brazos espirales, mientras que aquellos más evolucionados se ubican de manera más uniforme, se desvían del plano y tienden a situarse a distancias Galactocéntricas mayores. Vale la pena mencionar que las distancias calculadas mediante el uso del DR2 de Gaia, más allá de los 3 kpc, deben ser consideradas con reparos (Xu et al, 2018), aunque algunos autores las juzgan confiables hasta 5 kpc (Chen et al, 2019).…”
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