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Milky Way Analogue Isolated Disk Galaxy


Authors: Donna J. Cox (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Robert M. Patterson (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Stuart A. Levy (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Jeffrey D. Carpenter (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), AJ Christensen (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Kalina M. Borkiewicz (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Nathan J. Goldbaum (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Mark R. Krumholz (Australian National University; University of California, Santa Cruz), John C. Forbes (Harvard University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Abstract: This visualization by the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications shows the evolution of a simulated analogue for the Milky Way galaxy over the course of 50 million years.

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