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Local stellar distribution and galactic spiral structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

S. W. McCuskey*
Affiliation:
Warner and Swasey Observatory, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Aside from the well-known spiral arm tracers such as the OB associations, young galactic clusters, WR stars and possibly the long-period classical cepheids, the more common stars in the neighborhood of the sun within 2 kpc show little or no relationship to the local spiral structure of the galaxy.

Type
Part II/Observations of Spiral Structure in Our Galaxy
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

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