Chrobáková, Z;
López-Corredoira, M;
Garzón, F;
(2022)
Analysing the structure of the bulge with Mira variables.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
, 666
, Article L13. 10.1051/0004-6361/202244810.
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Abstract
Context. The Galactic bulge at latitude 4 < |b|(deg) < 10 was claimed to show an X-shape, which means that stellar density distributions along the line of sight have a double peak. However, this double peak is only observed with the red-clump population, and doubt has been cast on its use as a perfect standard candle. As such, a boxy bulge without an X-shape is not discarded. Aims. We aim to constrain the shape of the bulge making use of a different population: Mira variables from the new Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment data release, OGLE-IV, with an average age of 9 Gyr. Methods. We analysed an area of the bulge far from the plane, where we fitted the density of the Miras with boxy bulge and X-shaped bulge models and calculated the probability of each model. Results. We find that the probability of a boxy bulge fitting the data is p = 0.19, whereas the probability for the X-shaped bulge is only p = 2.85 × 10−6 (equivalent to a tension of the model with the data of a 4.7σ level). Therefore, the boxy bulge model seems to be more appropriate for describing the Galactic bulge, although we cannot exclude any model with complete certainty.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Analysing the structure of the bulge with Mira variables |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/202244810 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244810 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Galaxy: bulge |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202955 |
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