• DOI:10.1093/mnras/stu631
Corpus ID: 119235554

Two estimates of the distance to the Galactic Centre

@article{Francis2014TwoEO,
  title={Two estimates of the distance to the Galactic Centre},
  author={C. Francis and E. Anderson},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2014},
  volume={441},
  pages={1105-1114}
}

• C. Francis, E. Anderson
• Published 2014
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

We use recently updated globular cluster distances to estimate the distance to the Galactic centre, finding 7.4 \pm 0.2|stat \pm 0.2|sys kpc from symmetry considerations. We recalibrate the red clump magnitude from Hipparcos stars, finding a skew distribution and a significant difference between peak and mean magnitudes. We find an estimate from stars in the periphery of the bulge using 2MASS, R0 = 7.5 \pm 0.3 kpc, in agreement with the figure from the halo centroid. We resolve discrepancies in… Expand

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