A boxy bulge in the milky way. Inversion of the stellar statistics equation with 2MASS data

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 439, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-110

  Lopez Corredoira M ^a,b   Cabrera Lavers, A ^a   Gerhard, O E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Galaxy: structure; Infrared: stars

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUN;

GALAXY: STRUCTURE; INFRARED: STARS; MILKY WAYS; STELLAR STATISTICS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 23844539376     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053075     Document Type: Article

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