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most citedMeasurement of Galactic Logarithmic Spiral Arm Pitch Angle Using Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform Decomposition

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astro-ph.GA2015★ 16 cited

Spirality: A Novel Way to Measure Spiral Arm Pitch Angle

Douglas W. Shields, Benjamin Boe, Casey Pfountz +6

We present the MATLAB code Spirality, a novel method for measuring spiral arm pitch angles by fitting galaxy images to spiral templates of known pitch. Computation time is typicall…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

A Fundamental Plane of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies

Benjamin L. Davis, Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick +7

Spiral structure is the most distinctive feature of disk galaxies and yet debate persists about which theory of spiral structure is the correct one. Many versions of the density wa…