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Table 2

Parameters of the planar fiducial non-axisymmetric potential fit in Sect. 4.2.

Bar

Ωb φb,0 Rb,max Kb,2 Kb,4 Kb,6 a2 a4 a6 b2 b4 b6
37 km s−1 kpc−1 28° 12 kpc 0.25 8.4 210.41 1.8 4.08 5.96 5.08 10.7 16.06

m = 2 spiral

Ωs,2 Ks,2 φs,2 ps,2 Rs,2,min Rs,2,max hs,2 Σs,2 ILR CR

13.1 km s−1 kpc−1 0.15 % 47.8 ° 8.1 ° 6.6 kpc 26.4 kpc 0.13 kpc 24.9 % 4.1 kpc 17.6 kpc

m = 3 spiral

Ωs,3 Ks,3 φΜ ps,3 Rs,3,min Rs,3,max hs,3 Σs,3 ILR CR
16.4 km s−1 kpc−1 0.06 % 81.7 ° 13.7 ° 8.0 kpc 19.6 kpc 0.13 kpc 9.3 % 8.0 kpc 14.4 kpc

Notes. The parameters are defined in Eqs. (7) and (9). The surface density contrasts at the solar radius, ΣS, were computed from the integrated 3D density equation for spiral arms in Cox & Gomez (2002) over the baryonic surface density of the background.

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