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Caption: Figure 2.
Spiral arm dispersion in width (red circles) and z-height (blue squares) vs. Galactocentric radius after Reid et al. (2014). Data from parallax sources were assigned to spiral arms and for each arm's data we calculated and plotted the standard deviation about the mean against the average radius. Dashed lines indicate broken linear fits, that were used to determine the expected deviations of sources from the model spiral arm segments.
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