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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.

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@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)