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Galactic longitude dependent Galactic model parameters

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We present the Galactic model parameters for thin disc estimated by Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data of 14 940 stars with apparent magnitudes 16<go2116<g_{o}\leq21 in six intermediate latitude fields in the first Galactic quadrant. Star/galaxy separation was performed by using the SDSSSDSS photometric pipeline and the isodensity contours in the (gr)0(ri)0(g-r)_{0}-(r-i)_{0} two colour diagram. The separation of thin disc stars is carried out by the bimodal distribution of stars in the (gr)o(g-r)_{o} histogram, and the absolute magnitudes were evaluated by a procedure presented in the literature Bilir et al. (2005). Exponential density law fits better to the derived density functions for the absolute magnitude intervals 8<M(g)98<M(g)\leq9 and 11<M(g)1211<M(g)\leq12, whereas sech/sech2^{2} laws are more appropriate for absolute magnitude intervals 9<M(g)109<M(g)\leq10 and 10<M(g)1110<M(g)\leq11. We showed that the scaleheight and scalelength are Galactic longitude dependent. The average values and ranges of the scaleheight and the scalelength are <H>=220<H>=220 pc (196H234196\leq H \leq 234 pc) and <h>=1900<h>=1900 pc (1561h22801561\leq h \leq 2280 pc) respectively. This result would be useful to explain different numerical values claimed for those parameters obtained by different authors for the fields in different directions of the Galaxy.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0610109,
  title  = {Galactic longitude dependent Galactic model parameters},
  author = {S. Bilir and S. Karaali and S. Ak and E. Yaz and E. Hamzaoglu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0610109},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, including 12 figures and 7 tables, accepted for publication in New Astronomy