Abstract
The Two Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) is the most sensitive large scale point source near infrared survey of the Galactic Plane yet attempted. The Galactic plane has been drift-scanned in several regions over the areas -5° < l < 30°, |b|≤ 15° and 30° < l < 180°, |b|≤ 5°.The survey is complete in the areas covered to magnitude m k = +9.8. So far, a total area of 255 square degrees has been mapped and 500000 objects have been detected, the majority of these in the Galactic plane and with no visible counterparts. In this contribution we use data from the TMGS to probe the star distribution within the Galactic disk.
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Garzón, F., Hammersley, P.L., Mahoney, T., Calbet, X., Selby, M.J. (1994). Galactic Structure from the Two Micron Galactic Survey. In: Epchtein, N., Omont, A., Burton, B., Persi, P. (eds) Science with Astronomical Near-Infrared Sky Surveys. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0946-8_39
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