ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Many spiral galaxies have stellar bars—an elongated region near the centre from which spiral arms emerge. Gas and stars in barred galaxies move on highly non-circular orbits. Models predict that the gas streamlines are strongly deflected along shock fronts in the bar region, and that the ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/16861
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