The Vertical Structure of the Halo Rotation

Abstract

New GSC-II proper motions of RR Lyrae and Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars near the North Galactic Pole are used to show that the Galactic Halo 5 kpc above the Plane has a significantly retrograde galactic rotation.

Paper presented at the Galactic Dynamics Workshop (JENAM 2002), 6 pages, uses eas.cls (included)