Why Angles Between Galactic Center Filaments and Galactic Plane Follow a Bimodal Distribution: A Symmetry-Based Explanation

Authors

Julio C. Urenda, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

7-1-2024

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-24-39

Abstract

Recent observations have shown that the angles between the Galaxy Center filaments and the Galactic plane follow a bimodal distribution: a large number of filaments are approximately orthogonal to the Galactic plane, a large number of filaments are approximately parallel to the Galactic plane, and much fewer filaments have other orientations. In this paper, we show this bimodal distribution can be explained by natural geometric symmetries.