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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 7.

Panel (a) presents the intensity-weighted centroid velocity map, the two-dimensional first-order fit to the observed velocity field, and the corresponding residual map. Panel (b) shows the radial profile extracted from the residual map, while panel (c) displays the variations of the absolute (upper) and relative (lower) residuals obtained from the piecewise fitting. The blue curve in the panels (b) and (c) represents the best-fitting piecewise sinusoidal function, with amplitudes of 0.11 and 0.13 km s−1 and corresponding periods of 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{^\circ }﹩18 and 0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{^\circ }﹩16 for the left and right segments, respectively. The blue-shaded regions indicate the bridging intervals connected by the cubic Hermite spline.

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