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2010ApJ...721L..28N - Astrophys. J., 721, L28-L32 (2010/September-3)

The split red clump of the Galactic Bulge from OGLE-III.

NATAF D.M., UDALSKI A., GOULD A., FOUQUE P. and STANEK K.Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

The red clump (RC) is found to be split into two components along several sightlines toward the Galactic bulge. This split is detected with high significance toward the areas (-3.5 < l < 1, b < -5) and (l, b) = (0, + 5.2), i.e., along the bulge minor axis and at least 5 deg off the plane. The fainter (hereafter "main") component is the one that more closely follows the distance-longitude relation of the bulge RC. The main component is ∼0.5 mag fainter than the secondary component and with an overall approximately equal population. For sightlines further from the plane, the difference in brightness increases, and more stars are found in the secondary component than in the main component. The two components have very nearly equal (V - I) color.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: bulge - Galaxy: structure - stars: horizontal-branch

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJ/721/L28): table1.dat>

Simbad objects: 5086

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