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Total Opacity of Local Group Galaxies and Large Scale Structure behind the Galactic Bulge
Rosa A. Gonzalez, Benne Holwerda, Laurent Loinard +2
Recently, we have developed and calibrated the Synthetic Field Method to derive total extinction through disk galaxies. The method is based on the number counts and colors of dista…
astro-ph2004
Cold Molecular Gas as a Possible Component of Dark Matter in the Outer Parts of Disk Galaxies
Ronald J. Allen, Rosa Diaz-Miller
In the last few years new evidence has been presented for the presence of ongoing massive star formation in the outer HI disks of galaxies. These discoveries strongly suggest that…