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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 .

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Caption: Figure 8.

Left panel: the distribution of the young giant sample in the XY-plane. Each black point corresponds to a star. The Sun’s position is shown by the ⊙ symbol. The Galactic center is to the right, at (X, Y) =:(R⊙, 0 kpc), with R⊙ = 8.277 kpc (GRAVITY Collaboration et al. 2022). Galactic rotation is clockwise. Right panel: same as the left panel, but now showing the regions of positive (>0) overdensities in the Galactic disk based on the young giant sample (see the details in the text).

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