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The Structural Parameters of the Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Roland Buser  and
Jianxiang Rong
Roland Buser
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
Jianxiang Rong
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Nanjing University, China

Abstract

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A new homogeneous catalog of photographic RGU star count and three-color data in seven high-galactic latitude fields has been used to determine the structural parameter values from a large number of multi-component population models of the Galaxy. The data provide strong evidence of a prominent thick disk component coexisting with a canonical thin disk and a low-density spheroidal halo.

Type
Chapter 8: How do we put it together?
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 169: Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way , 1996 , pp. 707 - 708
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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