Bibcode
Fridman, A. M.; Koruzhii, O. V.; Zasov, A. V.; Sil'chenko, O. K.; Moiseev, A. V.; Burlak, A. N.; Afanas'ev, V. L.; Dodonov, S. N.; Knapen, J.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy Letters, Volume 24, Issue 6, November 1998, pp.764-773; Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 24, p. 883
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1998
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Description
The velocity field of the nearly face-on galaxy NGC 3631 is derived from
observations in the Hα line on the 6-m telescope of the Special
Astrophysical Observatory. These optical data are compared with radio
observations of this galaxy (Knapen 1997). It is argued that the
two-armed spiral structure of NGC 3631 has a wave nature, and that the
observed vertical gas motions represent motions in a spiral density
wave.