James Binney, Ortwin Gerhard
Published 1995-08-25Version 1
An algorithm is developed and tested for the problem posed by photometric observations of the bulge of the Milky Way. The latter subtends a non-trivial solid angle on the sky, and we show that this permits inversion of the projected brightness distribution under the assumption that the bulge has three orthogonal mirror planes of specified orientation. A serious error in the assumed orientation of the mirror planes should be detectable.
Comments: 6 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Uuencoded, gzip-compressed ps-file including 8 figures. Also available at http://www.astro.unibas.ch/~gerhard/papers/bulge.ps.gz.uu
Abundances of Recently Discovered Planetary Nebulae Towards the Galactic Bulge
The Nature of the Mid-Infrared Background Radiation in the Galactic Bulge from the IRTS Observations
The Outer Regions of the Galactic Bulge:I Observations
