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Statistical determination of the distance to the Galactic Centre and the outset of the Milky Way old bulge: astrophysical conclusions
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WoS WOS:001078507600003
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85173975514
DOI 10.1007/S10509-023-04236-9
Año 2023
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Autores Afiliación Chile

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Abstract



In this concluding work of the series, a sample of selected ∼ 20 , 000 type-ab RR Lyrae stars from a total of 39,617 sources of the old bulge at distances r< 3.5 kpc from the Galactic Centre (GC) identified in the Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea survey (VVV) via the latest sample of the VIrac VAriable Classification Ensemble (VIVACE) pipeline is leveraged. As a model of the bulge, an oblate spheroid of stars with two major perpendicular axes a and b situated in the Galactic plane and a minor axis c perpendicular to this plane is adopted. The spatial distribution of stars is approximated by a standard power law with constant flattening and truncations at the lower and upper limits while allowing for the Sun’s distance from the GC r , the power-law index α , and the oblateness q= c/ a to be free parameters. Our estimate of the distance is r= 8.15 ± 0.04 kpc. The implied r is almost the same for 1.5 < rmax< 3.5 kpc, while the | α| and q values are varying systematically with increasing truncation radius rmax in the ranges 1.56 − 2.66 and 1.0 − 0.76 . A weighted average and weighted uncertainty associated with all our measurements of r in the series is also taken, r= 8.2 ± 0.1 kpc. We argue that the ensuing result may be among the most robust indirect estimates that exist, as certain of the findings are tied to passbands of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) RR Lyraes and globular clusters, and to near-infrared passbands of the VVV Type II Cepheids and VIVACE-VVV RR Lyraes. The distribution of stars within ≈ 3 kpc from the GC is spherical-like, q≈ 1 . The average power-law indexes derived from the distribution of bulge RRab and inner halo globular clusters are nearly identical. This pertinent result demonstrates that the old bulge and inner halo form a continuous subsystem, and the bulk of the bulge objects represents the inner extension of a centrally concentrated, almost axisymmetric halo in the Galaxy.

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1 Griv, Evgeny - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Israel
BEN GURION UNIV NEGEV - Israel
2 Jiang, Ing Guey - National Tsing Hua University - Taiwán
Natl Tsing Hua Univ - Taiwán
3 Majaess, Daniel Hombre Mount Saint Vincent University - Canadá
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brasil
Mt St Vincent Univ - Canadá
UNIV FED SANTA CATARINA - Brasil
4 MINNITI-DEL BARCO, DANTE Hombre Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brasil
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello - Chile
Vatican Observatory - Italia
UNIV FED SANTA CATARINA - Brasil
Vatican Observ - Vaticano

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Fuente
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
Israel Science Foundation
National Tsing Hua University
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Department of Physics, at Ben-Gurion University
The authors have benefited from productive discussions with their colleagues from the Department of Physics, at Ben-Gurion University and the Institute of Astronomy, at National Tsing-Hua University. One of us (E. G.) is grateful to Irena Zlatopolsky for h
Institute of Astronomy, at National Tsing-Hua University

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The study was sponsored in part by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Israel in the framework of the program ‘KAMEA’, and the Israel Science Foundation. D. M. also acknowledges support from CNPq/Brazil through project-350104/2022-0. Dante Minniti gratefully acknowledges support from ANID BASAL projects ACE210002 and FB210003, from Fondecyt project 1220724, and from CNPq Brazil project 350104/2022-Q and I.-G. J. thanks to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
The study was sponsored in part by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Israel in the framework of the program ‘KAMEA’, and the Israel Science Foundation. D. M. also acknowledges support from CNPq/Brazil through project-350104/2022-0. Dante Minniti gratefully acknowledges support from ANID BASAL projects ACE210002 and FB210003, from Fondecyt project 1220724, and from CNPq Brazil project 350104/2022-Q and I.-G. J. thanks to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
The authors have benefited from productive discussions with their colleagues from the Department of Physics, at Ben-Gurion University and the Institute of Astronomy, at National Tsing-Hua University. One of us (E. G.) is grateful to Irena Zlatopolsky for her endorsement during the preparation of the paper. We thank the reviewer for providing several suggestions for improving the manuscript.

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