Galaxy Zoo: constraining the origin of spiral arms
Since the discovery that the majority of low-redshift galaxies exhibit some level of spiral structure, a number of theories have been proposed as to why these patterns exist. A popular explanation is a process known as swing amplification, yet there is no observational evidence to prove that such a...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51705/ |