• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361:200810720
Corpus ID: 15040792

The long Galactic bar as seen by UKIDSS Galactic plane survey

@article{CabreraLavers2008TheLG,
  title={The long Galactic bar as seen by UKIDSS Galactic plane survey},
  author={A. Cabrera-Lavers and C. Gonz{\'a}lez-Fern{\'a}ndez and F. Garz{\'o}n and P. Hammersley and M. L'opez-Corredoira},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2008},
  volume={491},
  pages={781-787}
}

A. Cabrera-Lavers, C. González-Fernández, +2 authors M. L'opez-Corredoira

Published 2008

Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Context. Over the past decade there have been a series of results supporting the hypothesis of the existence of a long thin bar in the Milky Way with a half-length of 4.5 kpc and a position angle of around 45°. This is apparently a very different structure from the triaxial bulge of the Galaxy, which is thicker and shorter and dominates the star counts at $|l| Aims. In this paper, we analyse the stellar distribution in the inner Galaxy to see if there is clear evidence for two triaxial or bar… CONTINUE READING

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