Hostname: page-component-6bb9c88b65-g7ldn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-07-22T12:07:14.365Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Small amplitude density waves on a flat galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. J. Kalnajs
A. J. Kalnajs*
Affiliation:
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

By numerical methods we have found an unstable two-armed density wave on a flat galactic model. We present the results in a form of four plots, and briefly discuss the observational implications as well as the uncertainties involved in the models and the calculations.

Information

Type
Part III/Theory of Spiral Structure
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 38: The Spiral Structure of our Galaxy , 1970 , pp. 318 - 322
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

References

Kalnajs, A. J.: 1965, Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University.Google Scholar
Kerr, F. J.: 1964, IAU-URSI Symposium No. 20, p. 81.Google Scholar
Lindblad, B.: 1958, Stockholm Obs. Ann. 20, No. 6.Google Scholar
Van de Hulst, H. C., Raimond, E., and Van Woerden, M.: 1957, Bull. Astron. Inst. Netherl. 14, 1.Google Scholar