A boxy bulge in the Milky Way. Inversion of the stellar statistics equation with 2MASS data

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2005-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504608v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, accepted to be published in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053075

Inverting the stellar statistics equation from 2MASS star counts, we obtain
the 3D density distribution of the Galactic bulge as well as its luminosity
function in the K-band. This results in a boxy bulge with axial ratios
1:0.5:0.4 and a major axis angle with respect to the Sun-galactic center of
$20^\circ-35^\circ $.

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