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The Spiral Arms of M81

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Frank N. Bash*
Affiliation:
McDonald Observatory University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 USA

Abstract

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An intensive study of M81 has shown a number of interesting features of the spiral-arm star formation process there.

Type
III- Observations of Spiral Structure
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

References

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