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The Spiral Arms of M81

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Frank N. Bash
Frank N. Bash*
Affiliation:
McDonald Observatory University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 USA

Abstract

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An intensive study of M81 has shown a number of interesting features of the spiral-arm star formation process there.

Type
III- Observations of Spiral Structure
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 87
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

References

Bash, F.N. and Kaufman, M. (1986) ‘The Global Spiral Structure of M 81: Radio Continuum Maps,’ Astrophys. J., 310, 621–636.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kaufman, M., Elmegreen, D.M., and Bash, F.N. (1989) ‘The Dust Lanes in M81: A Tracer of the Molecular Gas?’ Astrophys. J., 345, 697–706.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kaufman, M., Bash, F.N., Hine, B., Rots, A.H., Elmegreen, D.M., and Hodge, P.W. (1989) ‘A Comparison of Spiral Tracers in M81,’ Astrophys. J., 345, 674–696.CrossRefGoogle Scholar