The Interpretation of Near-Infrared Star Counts at the South Galactic Pole

T. Minezaki, M. Cohen, Y. Kobayashi +2

We present new deep $K^{\prime }$ counts of stars at the South Galactic Pole (SGP) taken with the NAOJ PICNIC camera to $K^{\prime }=17.25$. Star-galaxy separation to $K^{\prime }=17.5$ was accomplished effe…