No CrossRef data available.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
We report progress on a spectroscopic and photometric programme devoted to the study of the dynamics of O-F5 stars within 15° of the North and South Galactic Poles. The aims of the programme are to test dynamical and chemical evolution models of the Galaxy by establishing velocity dispersions as a function of z-distance for stars of different population groups. We are also able to investigate the interstellar reddening at the poles and the kinematic properties of apparently normal early-type stars found more than 1 kpc from the galactic plane.