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The Flare and Spiral Structure of the Milky Way’s Disk as Traced by Young Giant Stars

  • Authors: E. Poggio, R. Drimmel, S. Khanna, R. Andrae, M. G. Lattanzi

E. Poggio et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1010 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Obtained disk scale heights at different Galactocentric radii R. Each point corresponds to a cell in the middle and right panels of Figure 5. The black solid line shows the best-fit exponential model of the Galactic flare, and the transparent orange lines are obtained by drawing random samples from the uncertainties associated with hz0 and hfl, as explained in the text. Given that the y-axis is on a logarithmic scale, the exponential form adopted in Equation (10) appears as a linear function.

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