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- Title
Red clump giant stars as tracers of Galactic structure.
- Authors
López-Corredoira, M.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Hammersley, P. L.; Garzón, F.; Mahoney, T. J.; González-Fernández, C.
- Abstract
By isolating the red clump giant population in the color-magnitude diagrams and inverting their star counts, we can obtain directly the density distribution of the old stellar population along the line of sight. We have applied this method to several near infrared surveys and obtained information on the disc, bulge and long bar. The disc is well fitted by an exponential distribution in both the galactocentric distance and height, flared and warped in the outer parts, and with a deficit of stars in the inner in-plane regions. The long bar occupies these in-plane regions within R < 3.9 kpc, with approximate dimensions of 7.8 kpc × 1.2 kpc × 0.2 kpc and a position angle of 40-45 deg. The bulge is a triaxial structure, possibly boxy, thicker and shorter than the long bar and with position angle of 10-30 deg.
- Publication
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2009, Vol 5, Issue H15, p811
- ISSN
1743-9213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1743921310011890