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Investigation of Galactic Structure with Denis Star Counts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

S. Ruphy
S. Ruphy*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris

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Thanks to the DENIS program (Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky), relatively deep near-infrared star counts are now available for the first time on a large scale. The basic method to interpret star counts in terms of galactic structure is to compare them with predictions given by models of the point source sky. Of particular promise are studies with DENIS of the spatial distribution of evolved stars in our Galaxy, thanks to its high sensitivity to red giant and to the much lower interstellar extinction that hampers visual observations of far-away stars in the disc of our Galaxy. In this paper, I present a sample of extensive comparisons between two models of the Galaxy and DENIS star counts (Ruphy 1996). I will focus on the analysis of star counts in the anticenter direction, that leads to new values for the distance of the cutoff and the radial scale length of the stellar disc.

Type
Part 4. Galactic Structure
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 179: New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys , 1998 , pp. 231 - 233
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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