III. Local Galactic Structure

Abstract

This section contains work dealing with the Milky Way characteristics in the solar neighbourhood and supported by observations with wavelengths shorter than 1 mm. Thus, results are collected from gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, optical and IR observations in the different subsections. These are (1) the volume closest to the sun, (2) more distant objects at low galactic latitudes, and (3) objects at high galactic latitudes. Overall properties of the Galaxy and evolutionary effects are presented in Section IV.