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The Milky Way Disk Warp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Florido
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada, Spain
E. Battaner
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada, Spain
E. Alfaro
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain
M.L. Sanchez-Saavedra
Affiliation:
Universidad de Granada, Spain

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A warped disk in our own galaxy is evident by means of HI, HII, γ-rays and dust observations, but unexistent when star distributions are considered, specially those of late type stars. This fact is in disagreement with the theories which assume a gravitational origin of warps, for instance a tidal interaction with the Magellanic Clouds. We tried to find the z-distribution of open clusters of different ages, for which a warp distribution was neither found nor rejected. Assuming an intergalactic magnetic field origin of the warp, we obtain a direction of the field in the Milky Way neighborhood given by (b,1) = (45°, 74°).

Type
VII. The Structure of the Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989