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Large-scale Spiral Structure of the Milky Way Traced by Young Classical Cepheids

  • Authors: Z. H. Lin, C. J. Hao, D. J. Liu, Y. J. Li, J. J. Li, Y. W. Dong, Y. X. He, Jarken Esimbek

Z. H. Lin et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Left: spiral-arm patterns traced by classical Cepheids of different ages under the four-arm model. Right: spiral-arm patterns traced by classical Cepheids of different ages under the multiple-arm model. Top: subsample A; bottom: subsample B. White dashed lines show maser-traced spiral arms; white triangles denote masers. Colored circles represent classical Cepheids (filled: with vLSR; open: without), with colors indicating assigned spiral arms (see Figure 2). The solid lines represent the best-fitting spiral arms traced by classical Cepheids, with dashed lines indicating their widths.

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