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Scale height of the thin galactic disk in solar neighborhood

Zhu, Z.; Kong, D. L.

Thanks to astrometric data of unprecedented accuracy from Hipparcos Catalogue

(ESA 1997), it becomes possible to investigate, by directly counting stars, the scale height of the thin Galactic disk in solar neighborhood defined by the perpendicular distribution of stellar populations. In order to trace out the evolution of scale height, which …