The Long Bar in the Milky Way: Corroboration of an Old Hypothesis

López-Corredoira, M.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Mahoney, T. J.; Hammersley, P. L.; Garzón, F.; González-Fernández, C.
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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 133, Issue 1, pp. 154-161.

Fecha de publicación:
1
2007
Número de autores
6
Número de autores del IAC
6
Número de citas
97
Número de citas referidas
77
Descripción
Recent Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire data have further confirmed the hypothesis of the existence of an in-plane long bar different from the bulge of the Milky Way with the same characteristics as emphasized some years ago by our team. In this paper we present two new analyses that corroborate recent and earlier claims concerning the existence in our Galaxy of a long, flat bar with approximate dimensions of 7.8 kpc×1.2 kpc×0.2 kpc and a position angle of approximately 43°: (1) star counts with 2MASS All-Sky Data Release and Midcourse Space Experiment data, which give an excess in the plane region along 0deg