The origin of the split red clump in the galactic bulge of the milky way
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2012
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Ness, Melissa
Freeman, Kenneth
Athanassoula, E
Wylie de Boer, Elizabeth
Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
Lewis, Geraint Francis
Yong, David
Asplund, Martin
Lane, R R
Kiss, L L
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IOP Publishing
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Near the minor axis of the Galactic bulge, at latitudes b < -5°, the red giant clump stars are split into two components along the line of sight. We investigate this split using the three fields from the ARGOS survey that lie on the minor axis at (l, b)
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Keywords: Galaxy: abundances; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure; stars: late-type
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Astrophysical Journal, The
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