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HI in the inner few kiloparsecs of the galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

W. B. Burton  and
H. S. Liszt
W. B. Burton
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory†, Green Bank, W. Va. U.S.A.
H. S. Liszt
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory†, Green Bank, W. Va. U.S.A.

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After reviewing the available observational material, we describe here a simple model of the distribution and kinematics of HI gas within 1.5 kpc of the galactic center. According to this model, most of the inner-Galaxy gas is smoothly distributed in a tilted disk, within which the perceived kinematics are consistent with axisymmetric rotation and expansion of approximately equal magnitude. The model subsumes in a coherent way many observed spectral features which were previously studied separately, without requiring important density enhancements or anisotropic ejection from the nucleus.

Type
VI. THE GALACTIC NUCLEUS
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 84: The Large-Scale Characteristics of the Galaxy , 1979 , pp. 325 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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