The Galactic Bar
天体物理学
2008-11-26 v1
摘要
The Milky Way has a barred bulge. This article summarizes the current understanding of the main structural parameters and pattern speed of the bar, and compares predicted values for the microlensing optical depth with the bulge microlensing observations.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0203109,
title = {The Galactic Bar},
author = {Ortwin Gerhard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0203109},
year = {2008}
}
备注
To appear in: The Dynamics, Structure and History of Galaxies, a conference in honor of Ken Freeman, eds. G.S. Da Costa & E.M. Sadler, ASP Conference Series. 10 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures