The structure of the outer Galactic disc as revealed by IPHAS early A stars

@article{Sale2010TheSO,
  title={The structure of the outer Galactic disc as revealed by IPHAS early A stars},
  author={S E Sale and J E Drew and Christian Knigge and Albert A. Zijlstra and Michael J. Irwin and R. A. H. Morris and Steven Phillipps and Jeremy J. Drake and Robert Greimel and Yvonne C. Unruh and Paul J. Groot and Antonio Mampaso and Nicholas A. Walton},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2010},
  volume={402},
  pages={713-723}
}
This study is an investigation of the stellar density profile of the Galactic disc in the Anticentre direction. We select over 40,000 early A stars from IPHAS photometry in the Galactic longitude range 160 ◦ < l < 200 ◦ close to the equatorial plane (−1 ◦ < b < +1 ◦ ). We then compare their observed reddening-corrected apparent magnitude distribution with simulated photometry obtained from parameterised models in order to set constraints on the Anticentre stellar density profile. By selecting A… Expand
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