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A PARALLAX-BASED DISTANCE ESTIMATOR FOR SPIRAL ARM SOURCES

  • Authors: M. J. Reid, T. M. Dame, K. M. Menten, and A. Brunthaler

2016 The Astrophysical Journal 823 77.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Traces of the Sagittarius, Scutum, and Norma arms in the first Galactic quadrant, as well as the smaller Aquila spur (Cohen et al. 1980; Dame et al. 1986) and Aquila Rift features, on the CfA CO survey integrated from ﹩b=-1^\circ \quad {\rm{to}}\quad +1^\circ ﹩. The near and far sides of the arms are dotted and solid lines, respectively. The far side of Scutum probably does not extend below ﹩l\sim 20^\circ ﹩. The near side of the Sagittarius arm passes so close to the Sun that its tracing clouds are widely separated in longitude.

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