Perturbed precessing ellipses as the building blocks of spiral arms in a barred galaxy with two pattern speeds

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Fig. 3.

Difference between the periodic orbits of the x₁ families derived by the first-order normal form (red curve) and the second-order normal form (blue curve) for r_c = 9.4 kpc, where the greater deviation between the two orbits occurs.

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