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astro-ph.GA20229 cited

The Observed Age Gradient in the Milky Way -- as a Test for theories of spiral arm structure

Jacques P Vallee

Some important predictions from 4 main models of spiral arm formation are tested here, using observational data acquired for the Milky Way galaxy. Many spiral arm models (density w…

astro-ph.GA20216 cited

Arm Tangents and the spiral structure of the Milky Way ; the Age Gradient

Jacques P Vallee

From the Sun, a look at the edge of each spiral arm in our Milky Way (seen tangentially, along the line of sight) can yield numerous insights. Using different arm tracers (dust, ma…

astro-ph.GA202113 cited

A low density-wave spiral pattern speed, from the tracer separations (age gradient) across a spiral arm in the Milky Way

Jacques P Vallee

We observe the density wave angular pattern speed OMEGA-p to be near 12 to 17 km / s / kpc, by the separation between a typical optical HII region (from the spiral arm dust lane) a…

astro-ph.GA201918 cited

Statistics on 24 spiral galaxies having different observed arm locations using different arm tracers

Jacques P Vallee

The density wave theory predicted some physical offsets among different tracers of star formation. To test this prediction, here we compiled data on 40 galaxies searched observatio…

astro-ph.GA2019

Spatial offsets between interstellar bone-like filaments, radio masers, and cold diffuse CO gas, in the Scutum spiral arm

Jacques P Vallee

The advent of more precise measurements of distance estimates for some objects (bayesian estimates for filaments, trigonometric estimates for masers) permits a better comparison of…

astro-ph.GA2019

Spatial and velocity offsets of Galactic masers from the centers of spiral arms

Jacques P Vallee

Some galactic theories of spiral arms predict an offset between different tracers of star formation. Our goal here is to find such an offset between the observed location of radio…