Issue EAS Publications Series Volume 10, 2003 JENAM 2002, Galactic & Stellar Dynamics Page(s) 115 DOI 10.1051/eas:2003156

Galactic & Stellar Dynamics
C. Boily, P. Patsis, S. Portegies Zwart, R. Spurzem and C. Theis (eds)
EAS Publications Series, Vol. 10, 2003
DOI: 10.1051/eas:2003156

The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation

T.D. Kinman¹, C. Cacciari², A. Bragaglia³, A. Buzzoni³ and A. Spagna<sup>4

1</sup>  NOAO, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726-6732, USA; NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation
²  INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico, Bologna, Italy
³  INAF, Centro Galileo Galilei, La Palma, Spain
⁴  INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico, Torino, Italy

kinman@noao.edu

Abstract
New GSC-II proper motions of RR Lyrae and Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars near the North Galactic Pole are used to show that the Galactic Halo 5 kpc above the Plane has a significantly retrograde galactic rotation.

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