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| | NRAO Summer Student Program Project Summaries: 1999 |
 | | The student might choose either to concentrate on complete reduction of the survey data, in which case he or she will receive co-authorship on the survey paper, or to focus on the analysis and interpretation of a specific source and assume lead authorship. |
 | | Due to their lack of organization, flocculent galaxies have been assumed by some of the astronomical community to not contain spiral density waves. |
 | | So, Michele made this her doctoral thesis topic, investigated several flocculents, including the prototypical flocculent galaxy, NGC 5055, and found conclusive evidence for density wave presence in a few of them. |
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