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An outline of the spiral structure of the Southern Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

B. J. Bok
B. J. Bok*
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo Observatory

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It has become clear in recent years that the spiral features of our Galaxy — like those of all galaxies — are of recent origin and are presumably short-lived phenomena. To trace them optically, we need to confine ourselves to concentrations in the interstellar gas and to stars and star groupings recently formed from these. We are hence limited primarily to OB associations and star clusters in which the earliest spectral types for the stars are not later than B2, preferably O5 to B1. It is most important that radial velocities be measured for a fair sampling of these stars, especially so for directions in which the radial velocity effects due to galactic rotation vary appreciably with distance. Radial velocities of the stars in question and those found from interstellar absorption lines are not only useful as indicators of distance, but they are very much needed for the identification of star groups and their associated HI clouds, found by 21-cm techniques. They assist also in the study of HII regions, which can now be located by either radio or optical methods.

Type
Section 1: The Galaxy
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 20: The Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds , 1964 , pp. 147 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Academy of Science 1964 

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