The Sagittarius impact as an architect of spirality and outer rings in the Milky Way

Nature

Volumn 477, Issue 7364, 2011, Pages 301-303

  Purcell, Chris W ^a,b   Bullock, James S ^b   Tollerud, Erik J ^b   Rocha, Miguel ^b   Chakrabarti, Sukanya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY FIELD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; LATITUDE; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SAGITTARIUS;

EID: 80052860631     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10417     Document Type: Article

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