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Particle resonance in a spiral field
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Abstract
Plane galactic orbits near the particle resonance of a spiral field have been calculated numerically. Besides the ring type orbits, i.e. orbits filling a ring around the galactic center, there are orbits librating near the potential maxima at the co-rotation distance (Lagrangian points). This effect tends to disrupt the spiral arms at the co-rotation distance.
- Type
- Part III/Theory of Spiral Structure
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 38: The Spiral Structure of our Galaxy , 1970 , pp. 343 - 347
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- Copyright © Reidel 1970
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