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astro-ph.GA2012★ 142 cited
ARGOS II: The Galactic Bulge Survey
K. Freeman, M. Ness, E. Wylie de Boer +8
We describe the motivation, field locations and stellar selection for the ARGOS spectroscopic survey of 28,000 stars in the bulge and inner disk of the Milky Way galaxy across lati…
astro-ph.GA2012★ 327 cited
ARGOS III: Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge of the Milky Way
M. Ness, K. Freeman, E. Athanassoula +7
We present the metallicity results from the ARGOS spectroscopic survey of the Galactic bulge. Our aim is to understand the formation of the Galactic bulge: did it form via mergers,…
astro-ph.GA2012★ 180 cited
The origin of the split red clump in the Galactic bulge of the Milky Way
M. Ness, K. Freeman, E. Athanassoula +8
Near the minor axis of the Galactic bulge, at latitudes b < -5 degrees, the red giant clump stars are split into two components along the line of sight. We investigate this split u…