The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
New GSC-II proper motions of RR Lyrae and Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars near the North Galactic Pole are used to show that the Galactic Halo 5 kpc above the Plane has a significantly retrograde galactic rotation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0211243,
title = {The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation},
author = {T. D. Kinman and C. Cacciari and A. Bragaglia and A. Buzzoni and A. Spagna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0211243},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Paper presented at the Galactic Dynamics Workshop (JENAM 2002), 6 pages, uses eas.cls (included)