2009-04-10

spiral patterns

In the astro seminar today, Rix gave disturbing evidence that the disk spiral patterns have a fixed (or close-to-fixed) pattern speed. This was not his primary goal, but it was the most remarkable part of it all, from my point of view. One clever thing about the research is that they were able to make this argument without definitively identifying the spiral pattern or spiral arms themselves.

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