Galactoseismology: Discovery of vertical waves in the galactic disk

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 750, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Widrow, Lawrence M ^a   Gardner, Susan ^b   Yanny, Brian ^c   Dodelson, Scott ^c,d,e   Chen, Hsin Yu ^d  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; solar neighborhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860331382     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/750/2/L41     Document Type: Article

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