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Estimation of Absolute Magnitude-dependent Galactic Model Parameters In Intermediate Latitude With SDSS and SCUSS

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

Based on SDSS and South Galactic Cap of u-band Sky Survey (SCUSS) early data, we use star counts method to estimate the Galactic structure parameters in an intermediate latitude with 10,180 main-sequence (MS) stars in absolute magnitude interval of 4Mr134 \leq M_r \leq 13. We divide the absolute magnitude into five intervals:4Mr<54 \leq M_r < 5, 5Mr<65 \leq M_r < 6, 6Mr<86 \leq M_r < 8, 8Mr<108 \leq M_r < 10, 10Mr1310 \leq M_r \leq 13, and estimate the Galactic structure parameters in each absolute magnitude interval to explore their possible variation with the absolute magnitude. Our study shows the parameters depend on absolute magnitude. For the thin disk, the intrinsic faint MS stars have large local space density and they tend to stay close to the Galactic plane. A plausible explanation is that faint MS stars with long lifetime experience long gravitational interaction time result in a short scaleheight. However, for the thick disk, the parameters show a complex trend with absolute magnitude, which may imply the complicated original of the thick disk. For the halo, the intrinsic faint MS stars have large local density and small axial ratio, which indicate a flattened inner halo and a more spherical outer halo.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3490,
  title  = {Estimation of Absolute Magnitude-dependent Galactic Model Parameters In Intermediate Latitude With SDSS and SCUSS},
  author = {Yunpeng Jia and Cuihua Du and Zhenyu Wu and Xiyan Peng and Jun Ma and Xu Zhou and Xiaohui Fan and Zhou Fan and Yipeng Jing and Zhaoji Jiang and Michael Lesser and Jundan Nie and Edward Olszewski and Shiyin Shen and Jiali Wang and Hu Zou and Tianmeng Zhang and Zhimin Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3490},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS