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EAS Publications Series
Volume 10, 2003
JENAM 2002, Galactic & Stellar Dynamics
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| 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
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
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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
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INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico, Bologna, Italy
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INAF, Centro Galileo Galilei, La Palma, Spain
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INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico, Torino, Italy
Corresponding author: kinman@noao.edu
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.
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2003