Tracing Thick Disk and Halo of the Milky Way with Kinematics of sdB Stars

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Dec 2002

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Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Peturbations, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 275. Edited by E. Athanassoula, A. Bo

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We determined the kinematics of 110 sdB stars. We calculated orbits and
using these to derive scale heights. Most of the stars belongs to the
thick disk which has a scale height of 0.9 kpc. About 10% of the stars
belong to a much broader distribution, the galactic Halo.

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