scholarly journals Estimation of Galactic model parameters in high latitudes with the SDSS and SCUSS

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S298) ◽  
pp. 404-404
Author(s):  
Cuihua Du ◽  
Yunpeng Jia ◽  
Xiyan Peng

AbstractBased on the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS) and SDSS observation, we adopted the star-count method to analyze the stellar distribution in different directions of the Galaxy. We find that these model parameters may be variable with observed direction, which cannot simply be attributed to statistical errors.

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S295) ◽  
pp. 309-310
Author(s):  
Cuihua Du ◽  
Xiyan Peng

AbstractBased on the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS) and SDSS observations, we adopted the star-count method to analyze the stellar distribution in different directions of the Galaxy. We find that the scale height of the disk may be variable with the observed direction, which cannot simply be attributed to statistical errors. The main reason can be possibly attributed to the disk (mainly the thick disk) being flared, with a scale height increasing with radius. The axis ratio of the Galactic halo is in the range 0.4-0.6. This finding supports Galactic models with a flattened inner halo, partly formed through a merger early in the Galaxy's history.


2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bilir ◽  
A. Cabrera-Lavers ◽  
S. Karaali ◽  
S. Ak ◽  
E. Yaz ◽  
...  

AbstractWe estimated the Galactic model parameters for a set of 36 high-latitude fields included in the currently available Data Release 5 (DR 5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), to explore their possible variation with the Galactic longitude. The thick disc scaleheight moves from ∼550 pc at 120 < l < 150° to ∼720 pc at 250 < l < 290°, while the thin disc scaleheight is as large as ∼195 pc in the anticenter direction and ∼15% lower at |l| < 30°. Finally, the axis ratio (c/a) of the halo changes from a mean value of ∼0.55 in the two first quadrants of the Galaxy to ∼0.70 at 190 < l < 300°. For the halo, the reason for the dependence of the model parameters on the Galactic longitude arises from the well known asymmetric structure of this component. However, the variation of the model parameters of the thin and thick discs with Galactic longitude originates from the gravitational effect of the Galactic long bar. Moreover, the excess of stars in quadrant I (quadrant III) over quadrant IV (quadrant II) is in agreement with this scenario.


1996 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 713-714
Author(s):  
S. A. Kutuzov

The interval method of estimating model parameters (MPs) for the Galaxy was suggested earlier (Kutuzov 1988). Intervals are proposed to be used both for observational estimates of galactic parameters (GPs) and for the values of MPs. In this work we consider a model as a tool for studying mutual interaction of GPs. Two-component model is considered (Kutuzov, Ossipkov 1989). We have to estimate the array P of eight MPs.


2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Karaali ◽  
S. Bilir ◽  
E. Yaz ◽  
E. Hamzaoğlu ◽  
R. Buser

AbstractWe estimate 34 sets of Galactic model parameters for three intermediate-latitude fields with Galactic longitudes l = 60°, l = 90°, and l = 180°, and we discussed their dependence on the volume. Also, we confirm the variation of these parameters with absolute magnitude and Galactic longitude. The star samples in two fields are restricted with bright and unit absolute-magnitude intervals, 4 < Mg ≤ 5, and 5 < Mg ≤ 6, whereas for the third field (l = 60°) a larger absolute-magnitude interval is adopted, 4 < Mg ≤ 10. The limiting apparent magnitudes of the star samples are g0 = 15 and g0 = 22.5 mag, which provide space densities within distances in the line of sight of ∼0.9 and 25 kpc.The Galactic model parameters for the thin disc are not volume dependent. However, the ones for the thick disc and halo do show spectacular trends in their variation with volume, except for the scalelength of the thick disc. The local space density of the thick disc increases, whereas the scaleheight of the same Galactic component decreases monotonically. However, both model parameters approach asymptotic values at large distances.The relative local space density of the halo estimated by fitting the density laws to the space densities evaluated for all volumes is constant, except for the small ones. However it is absolute-magnitude and Galactic longitude dependent. The axial ratio of the halo increases abruptly for the volumes where a thick disc is dominant, whereas it approaches an asymptotic value gradually for larger volumes, indicating a continuous transition from a disc-like structure to a spherical one at the outermost region of the Galaxy. The variation of the Galactic model parameters with absolute magnitude can be explained by their dependence on the stellar luminosity, whereas the variation with volume and Galactic longitude at short distances is a bias in analysis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S298) ◽  
pp. 414-414
Author(s):  
Yunpeng Jia ◽  
Cuihua Du

AbstractUsing star counts method, we estimated the Galactic structure parameters in high latitude field (50° ≤ l ≤ 55°, −46° ≤ b ≤ −44°), 10 deg2 field with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and South Galactic Cap of U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS), to explore their possible variations with absolute magnitude. Here we just considered three components: double exponential thin disk and thick disk and a de Vaucouleurs halo. And these parameters were obtained by minimising χ2.


1997 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Natalija V. Bystrova

AbstractWe discuss details in the galactic HI distribution, which are relevant for studies of the Local Bubble. All results are based on the 21 cm Sky survey with the Large Pulkovo Radiotelescope. The antenna temperature scans were decomposed in two components and after the subtraction of the broad one two details in the residual are presented in this paper. The first is an estimate of the distance to the Sancisi-van Woerden filament in the Sco-Oph region. The second is the connection of a 21 cm feature in the southern galactic quadrant II with the negative-velocity elliptical brightness distribution around the South Pole of the Galaxy.


2006 ◽  
Vol 464 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cabrera-Lavers ◽  
S. Bilir ◽  
S. Ak ◽  
E. Yaz ◽  
M. López-Corredoira

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Vojtech Rušin ◽  
Milan Minarovjech ◽  
Milan Rybanský

AbstractLong-term cyclic variations in the distribution of prominences and intensities of green (530.3 nm) and red (637.4 nm) coronal emission lines over solar cycles 18–23 are presented. Polar prominence branches will reach the poles at different epochs in cycle 23: the north branch at the beginning in 2002 and the south branch a year later (2003), respectively. The local maxima of intensities in the green line show both poleward- and equatorward-migrating branches. The poleward branches will reach the poles around cycle maxima like prominences, while the equatorward branches show a duration of 18 years and will end in cycle minima (2007). The red corona shows mostly equatorward branches. The possibility that these branches begin to develop at high latitudes in the preceding cycles cannot be excluded.


2014 ◽  
Vol 441 (1) ◽  
pp. 503-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunpeng Jia ◽  
Cuihua Du ◽  
Zhenyu Wu ◽  
Xiyan Peng ◽  
Jun Ma ◽  
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