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

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2006-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611433v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, ApJ Letters, submitted

Scientific paper

10.1086/521098

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 velocity ellipsoid of stars with [Fe/H]>-0.5 dex shows a vertex deviation in the plot of radial versus transverse velocity, consistent with that expected from a population with orbits supporting a bar. We demonstrate that the significance of this vertex deviation using non-parametric rank correlation statistic is >99%. The velocity ellipsoid for the metal poor ([FeH]<-0.5) part of the population shows no vertex deviation and is consistent with an isotropic, oblate rotating population. We find no evidence for kinematic subgroups, but there is a mild tendency for the vertical velocity dispersion sigma_b to decrease with increasing metallicity.

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