How Do the Stellar Disc and Thick Disc Stop ?

Details How Do the Stellar Disc and Thick Disc Stop ? How Do the Stellar Disc and Thick Disc Stop ?

1994-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9411095v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Latex 6 pages (crckapbk style). 2 figures upon request or by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp.obs-besancon.fr/pub/outgoing/annie/ Se

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As part of a stellar population sampling program, a series of photometric probes at various field sizes and depths have been obtained in a low extinction window in the galactic anticentre direction. Very deep CCD frames probe the most external parts of the disc, providing strong evidence that the galactic density scale length for the old disc population is rather short (2.5 kpc) and drops abruptly beyond 5.5-6 kpc. Deeper frames in the I band allow to estimate photometric distances and confirm the position of the disc edge. A few stars are found at larger distances. Their number is exactly what we expect if the thick disc does not have any cutoff. We discuss the implications for the formation and evolution of the disc, for the star formation threshold, and for the origin of the thick disc population.

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