J/A+A/559/A98ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/559/A98doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35590098CDSValenti E.Zoccali M.Renzini A.Brown T.M.Gonzalez O.Minniti D.,Debattista V.P.Mayer L.2014-06-06T22:24:59Z2013-11-20T09:19:16ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frmilky-way-galaxyinfrared-photometryIn some scenarios for the formation of the Milky Way bulge, the stellar population at the edges of the boxy bulge may be younger than those on the minor axis or close to the Galactic center. So far the only bulge region where deep color-magnitude diagrams have been obtained is indeed along the minor axis. To overcome this limitation, we aim to age-date the bulge stellar populations far away from the bulge minor axis. Color-magnitude diagrams and luminosity functions have been obtained from deep near-IR VLT/HAWK-I images taken at the two Southern corners of the boxy bulge, i.e., near the opposite edges of the Galactic bar. The foreground disk contamination has been statistically removed using a pure disk field observed with the same instrument and located approximately at similar Galactic latitudes of the two bulge fields and ~30{deg} in longitude away from the Galactic center. For each bulge field, mean reddening and distance are determined using the position of red clump stars, and the metallicity distribution is derived photometrically using the color distribution of stars in the upper red giant branch.2013A&A...559A..98Vhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/559/A98CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/246 : 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)J/AcA/52/217 : OGLE II. VI photometry of Galactic Bulge (Udalski+, 2002)J/MNRAS/348/1439 : OGLE II Galactic center proper motions (Sumi+, 2004)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/559/A98https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/559/A98http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/559/A98https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/559/A98https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/559/A98http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/559/A98GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/A+A/559/A98/catalog (J,K photometry of fields BUL-SC9 and BUL-SC29, calibrated on the 2MASS (II/246) catalog)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/559/A98/catalog?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/559/A98/catalog?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/559/A98/catalog?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true276.09953-22.027210.0055555555555555566/28706-28707 290628.650015785639275e-20 1.7003137259100215e-19https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/A+A/559/A98?format=asciiInfrareddefaultJ/A+A/559/A98/catalogJ,K photometry of fields BUL-SC9 and BUL-SC29, calibrated on the 2MASS (II/246) catalogrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSCField number (9 for BUL-SC9, 29 for BUL-SC29)obs.fieldintnullableSeqSequential number within the fieldmeta.recordintprimaryJmagDerived J magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Jfloate_JmagError associated to Jmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.JfloatKmagDerived K magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Kfloate_KmagError associated to Kmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.KfloatRAJ2000Right Ascension (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainindexedDEJ2000Declination (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainindexed