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Caption: Figure 13.
Close-up view of the southwestern bar cusp of M 83, centered on J2000 coordinate 13
h36
m52
86, −29
d52
m55
3. Clockwise starting from left: high spatial resolution 21 cm image (ranging from 0.01 to 0.60 Jy km s
−1,
WISE HiRes 12 μm,
WISE HiRes 3.4 μm, Hα,
B band (with 12CO contours), and
GALEX NUV. The green contours emphasize the gray-scale contrast. Overlaying the
B-band image, the red contours are 12CO(1–0) with levels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 × 2.3 Jy km s
−1 (Kenney & Lord 1991). At the distance of M 83, the physical scale of 10'' is 213 pc.
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