The distance to the perseus spiral arm in the milky way

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5757, 2006, Pages 54-57

  Xu, Y ^a,b,c   Reid, M J ^b   Zheng, X W ^a,b   Menten, K M ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; EARTH (PLANET); ORBITS; TRIANGULATION;

DENSITY-WAVE THEORY; MILKY WAY; PERSUS SPIRAL ARM;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THEORY;

EID: 30344439518     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120914     Document Type: Article

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