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Vertical scaleheights in a gravitationally coupled, three-component Galactic disk
Chaitra A. Narayan, Chanda J. Jog
The vertical scaleheight of the atomic hydrogen gas shows a remarkably flat distribution with the galactocentric radius in the inner Galaxy. This has been a long-standing puzzle (O…
astro-ph2002★ 70 cited
Origin of Radially Increasing Stellar Scaleheight in a Galactic Disk
Chaitra A. Narayan, Chanda J. Jog
For the past twenty years, it has been accepted that the vertical scaleheight of the stellar disk in spiral galaxies is constant with radius. However, there is no clear physical ex…