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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2017
We constructed a model for the Galaxy to reproduce near-infrared (J, H, K, bands) and mid-infrared 12 and 25 micron IRAS bands source counts for a given direction and sensitivity of detection. The Galaxy is conceived as being formed by two populations: a disk, with different scale heights for each spectral type, and a de Vaucouleurs spheroid. The interstellar extinction is considered to be proportional to the amount of gas along the line of sight; both neutral (HI) and molecular (H2) components were taken into account, using the HI density distribution of Burton & Gordon (1978) and the CO density distribution of Sanders et al.(1984) and Gordon & Burton (1976).