A spectral analysis of the vertical positions and velocities of 374 open star clusters (OSCs) was carried out. We took these OSCs from the Hunt and Reffert catalog; they have an average age of about 10 million years, and are located on the galactic plane XY in a narrow zone inclined by 25° to the galactic axis Y. The following estimates of the parameters of the Radcliffe wave were obtained: (a) the maximum value in periodic perturbations of vertical coordinates
km s−1 with disturbance wavelength λW = 1.78 ± 0.02 kpc. Note that the results of the vertical velocity analysis are first-class in accuracy and completely new.
Key words: (Galaxy:) local interstellar matter – Galaxy: structure – (Galaxy:) solar neighborhood
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