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The Stellar Content of Spiral Arms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

P.S. Conti
P.S. Conti*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 USA

Abstract

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I will discuss the spiral arms of our Galaxy as indicated by the Wolf-Rayet star population and their connection to GMCs, the sizes and shapes of some nearby associations in the northern Milky Way, and the slope of the IMF for Cyg OB2 and several regions of the Magellanic Clouds.

Type
I. The Stellar Populations in the Milky Way
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 149: The Stellar populations of Galaxies , 1992 , pp. 93 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 

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