The vertical velocity dispersion profile of the Galactic thick disk

Details The vertical velocity dispersion profile of the Galactic thick disk The vertical velocity dispersion profile of the Galactic thick disk

2007-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/0712.3528v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 1 figure, proceeding of the XII IAU Latin American Regional Meeting

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We present the results of radial velocity measurements of 770 thick disk red giants toward the South Galactic Pole, vertically distributed from 0.5 kpc to 5 kpc with respect to the Galactic plane. We find a small gradient in the vertical velocity dispersion (sigma_W) of 3.8+/-0.8 km/s kpc. Even more noteworthy, our values of $\sigma_W$ are small compared to literature values: in the middle of the vertical height range we find sigma_W(z=2kpc)=30 km/s. We found no possible explanation for this small value of sigma_W in terms of sample contamination by thin disk stars, nor by wrong assumptions regarding the metallicity distribution and the derived distances.

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