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astro-ph.GA2015★ 55 cited
Kinematic Detection of the Galactic Nuclear Disc
Ralph Schönrich, Michael Aumer, Stuart E. Sale
We report the detection of the Galactic nuclear disc in line-of-sight kinematics of stars, measured with infrared spectroscopy from APOGEE. This stellar component of the nuclear di…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited
Three-dimensional extinction mapping and selection effects
S. E. Sale
Selection effects can bedevil the inference of the properties of a population of astronomical catalogues, unavoidably biasing the observed catalogue. This is particularly true when…
astro-ph.SR2015★ 25 cited
New OB star candidates in the Carina Arm around Westerlund 2 from VPHAS+
M. Mohr-Smith, J. E. Drew, G. Barentsen +12
O and early B stars are at the apex of galactic ecology, but in the Milky Way, only a minority of them may yet have been identified. We present the results of a pilot study to sele…