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astro-ph.GA2015★ 371 cited
The Structure of the Milky Way's Bar Outside the Bulge
Christopher Wegg, Ortwin Gerhard, Matthieu Portail
While it is incontrovertible that the inner Galaxy contains a bar, its structure near the Galactic plane has remained uncertain, where extinction from intervening dust is greatest.…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 93 cited
Peanuts, brezels and bananas: food for thought on the orbital structure of the Galactic bulge
M. Portail, C. Wegg, O. Gerhard
Recent observations have discovered the presence of a Box/Peanut or X-shape structure in the Galactic bulge. Such Box/Peanut structures are common in external disc galaxies, and ar…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 178 cited
Made-to-Measure models of the Galactic Box/Peanut bulge: stellar and total mass in the bulge region
M. Portail, C. Wegg, O. Gerhard +1
We construct dynamical models of the Milky Way's Box/Peanut (B/P) bulge, using the recently measured 3D density of Red Clump Giants (RCGs) as well as kinematic data from the BRAVA…