The corotation gap in the Galactic HI distribution

Details The corotation gap in the Galactic HI distribution The corotation gap in the Galactic HI distribution

2009-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/0907.4822v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

To be published in MNRAS

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We used the HI data from the LAB survey to map the ring-shaped gap in HI density which lies slightly outside the solar circle. Adopting $R_0$= 7.5 kpc, we find and average radius of 8.3 kpc and an average gap width of 0.8 kpc. The characteristics of the HI gap correspond closely to the expected ones, as predicted by theory and by numerical simulations of the gas flow near the corotation resonance.

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