The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation

T. D. Kinman; C. Cacciari; A. Bragaglia; A. Buzzoni; A. Spagna

doi:10.1051/eas:2003156

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 10, 2003 JENAM 2002, Galactic & Stellar Dynamics


Page(s)		115 - 115
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2003156
Published online		22 December 2003

JENAM 2002, Galactic & Stellar Dynamics
C. Boily, P. Patsis, S. Portegies Zwart, R. Spurzem and C. Theis (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 10 (2003) 115

The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation

T. D. Kinman¹, C. Cacciari², A. Bragaglia³, A. Buzzoni³ and A. Spagna⁴

¹ 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

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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.