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Fig. 4

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Sketch of the proposed model for explaining the 26Al kinematics. In the co-rotating frame chosen here, a spiral arm (solid line) moves anti-clockwise. At its previous location (dashed line), it created large superbubbles (ellipses), blowing out of the disc. The young star clusters (blue stars) at the current spiral arm location feed 26Al (colour gradient in ellipses) into the old superbubbles.

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