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Possible influence of the galactic spiral structure on the local distributions of stellar residual velocities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

M. Mayor*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Genève, Genève, Switzerland

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The residual velocity distribution, observed in the solar neighbourhood, exhibits several peculiarities for the stars of low epicyclic energy: vertex deviation, two-stream distribution, etc.

Type
Part IV/Comparison of Theory and Observations
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

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