{"title":"The warp of the Milky Way","authors":"L. Sparke","doi":"10.1063/1.43967","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The outer parts of the Galaxy disk are observed to bend away from the plane of the inner material. The warp is most obvious in neutral hydrogen, but also involves molecular gas and stars. Models for the bending of a self‐gravitating disk are discussed with reference to the Galactic warp.","PeriodicalId":310353,"journal":{"name":"Back to the Galaxy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Back to the Galaxy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1063/1.43967","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The outer parts of the Galaxy disk are observed to bend away from the plane of the inner material. The warp is most obvious in neutral hydrogen, but also involves molecular gas and stars. Models for the bending of a self‐gravitating disk are discussed with reference to the Galactic warp.