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M Giant Kinematics in Off-Axis Fields Between 150 and 300 PC from the Galactic Center
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
We present radial velocities for approximately 40 stars in each of four optically obscured, off-axis fields toward the Galactic bulge. The mean heliocentric radial velocity and velocity dispersion are −75 ± 24 km s–1 and 127 ± 16 km s–1 2 ± 23 km s–1 and 127 ± 14 km s–1, −14 ± 22 km s–1 and 126 ± 14 km s–1, and −31 ± 28 km s–1 and 153 ± 17 km s–1 for fields located at 299, 288, 171, and 160 pc projected radius, respectively. The dispersions generally match Kent's (1992) axisymmetric mass model but may be higher than the model's predictions at small projected radius.
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- Chapter 2: Is the Milky Way a Barred Spiral Galaxy?
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 169: Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way , 1996 , pp. 111 - 117
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996