The new Basel high-latitude field star survey of the Galaxy: II. The thick disk component: Density structure, luminosity function, and metallicity distribution

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 348, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 98-112

  Buser, Roland ^a   Rong, Jianxiang ^b   Karaali, Salih ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Galaxy: abundances; Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: structure; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943066439     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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