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Discovery of a Giant Spiral Molecular Cloud in the Galactic Anticenter

  • Authors: Xuepeng Chen, Li Sun, Yuehui Ma, Min Fang, Fujun Du, Ji Yang, Yang Su, Yan Sun, Xin Zhou, Qing-Zeng Yan, Shaobo Zhang, Lixia Yuan, Shiyu Zhang, Xin Liu, MWISP Group

Xuepeng Chen et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure 11.

A comparison between the CfA-1.2 m and MWISP 12CO images. The top panel shows a wide-field 12CO intensity image from the CfA-1.2 m survey, integrated within the [−16, −8] km s−1 velocity range. The middle panel shows an enlarged view of the CfA-1.2 m image toward the Galactic anticenter. The bottom panel shows the 12CO intensity image integrated within the same velocity range, observed from the MWISP survey. The blue dashed-line ellipse shows the spiral molecular cloud discovered in this work. For all the panels, the unit of the scale bar is K km s−1.

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