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The Galactic Force Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Chris Flynn
Chris Flynn*
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University
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Abstract

We describe a survey of metal rich K-giants at the SGP, and show how they can be used as a simple isothermal tracing population to derive the local density of matter and the component of acceleration Kz perpendicular to the galactic plane.

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Theoretical
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , 1987 , pp. 26 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1987

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