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Dynamics of the Galactic Spheroid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

TIM de Zeeuw
TIM de Zeeuw*
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht Leiden The Netherlands

Abstract

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The intrinsic shape and the kinematics of the Galactic bulge and the metal-poor stellar halo are discussed. There is strong evidence that the Galactic bulge is triaxial, and is rotating rapidly. The stellar halo is nearly round, rotates slowly, and has an anisotropic velocity distribution.

Type
I. The Stellar Populations in the Milky Way
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 149: The Stellar populations of Galaxies , 1992 , pp. 51 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 

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