A new photometric model of the Galactic bar using red clump giants

Cao, Liang; Mao, Shude; Nataf, David; Rattenbury, N; Gould, A

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A new photometric model of the Galactic bar using red clump giants

Date

2013

Authors

Cao, Liang

Mao, Shude

Nataf, David

Rattenbury, N

Gould, A

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

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