• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/801/2/105
Corpus ID: 119124338

Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way

@article{Xu2015RingsAR,
  title={Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way},
  author={Yan Xu and H. Newberg and J. Carlin and C. Liu and L. Deng and J. Li and R. Schonrich and B. Yanny},
  journal={arXiv: Astrophysics of Galaxies},
  year={2015}
}

Yan Xu, H. Newberg, +5 authors B. Yanny

Published 2015

Physics

arXiv: Astrophysics of Galaxies

We show that in the anticenter region, between Galactic longitudes of $110^\circ<l<229^\circ$, there is an oscillating asymmetry in the main sequence star counts on either side of the Galactic plane using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This asymmetry oscillates from more stars in the north at distances of about 2 kpc from the Sun to more stars in the south at 4-6 kpc from the Sun to more stars in the north at distances of 8-10 kpc from the Sun. We also see evidence that there are more… CONTINUE READING

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