A new photometric model of the Galactic bar using red clump giants
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2013
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Cao, Liang
Mao, Shude
Nataf, David
Rattenbury, N
Gould, A
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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We present a study of the luminosity density distribution of the Galactic bar using number counts of red clump giants from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) III survey. The data were recently published by Nataf et al. for 9019 fields tow
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Keywords: Centre - Galaxy; Galaxy: bulge - Galaxy; Stellar content - Galaxy; Structure
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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