On the Possibility of Determining the Distance to the Galactic Center from the Geometry of Spiral Arm Segments

A new approach to determining the solar galactocentric distance, R0, from the geometry of spiral-arm segments is proposed. Geometric aspects of the problem are analyzed and a simplified three-point method for estimating R0 from objects in a spiral segment is developed in order to test the proposed a...

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Main Authors: Nikiforov I. I., Veselova A. V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2015-12-01
Series:Open Astronomy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0240

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