Meanings
nounsizescale (plural sizescales)
plural sizescales
- A scale of sizes
Perturbations from a fairly massive Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, M#95;d#92;sim 2.5#92;times 10#123;10#125;M#95;#92;odot, are required to account for the sizescale of the observed streaming motions from its orbital pericentre approximately a Gyr ago.
2015, Alexander de la Vega, Alice C. Quillen, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Elena D'Onghia, “Phase Wrapping of Epicyclic Perturbations in the Wobbly Galaxy”, in arXiv
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