Evidence of a Metal Rich Galactic Bar from the Vertex Deviation of the Velocity Ellipsoid

Mario Soto, R. Michael Rich, Konrad Kuijken

We combine radial velocities, proper motions, and low resolution abundances for a sample of 315 K and M giants in the Baade's Window (l,b)=(0.9,-4) Galactic bulge field. The veloci…