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    • Volume 42 All articles Published: 11 June 2021 Article ID 0042 SCIENCE RESULTS

      Study of Galactic structure using UVIT/AstroSat star counts

      RANJAN KUMAR ANANTA C. PRADHAN DEVENDRA K. OJHA SONIKA PIRIDI TAPAS BAUG S. K. GHOSH

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      The structure of our Galaxy has been studied from ultraviolet (UV) star counts obtained with the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board the AstroSat satellite, in Far-UV (FUV) and Near-UV (NUV) bands. The F154W (BaF$_2$) and N263M (NUVB4) filters were used in the FUV and NUV bands,respectively. The point sources are separated from the extra-galactic sources of UVIT observations using infrared (IR) color cut method. The observed UVIT star counts match well with the simulations obtained from the Besanc¸on model of stellar population synthesis towards several Galactic directions. We alsoestimated the scale length and scale height of the thick disc and the scale height of the thin disc using the space density function and the exponential density law for the stars of intermediate galactic latitudes. The scale length of the thick disc ranges from 3.11 to 5.40 kpc whereas the scale height ranges from $530 \pm 32$ pc to $630 \pm 29$ pc. The scale height of the thin disc comes out to be in the range of $230 \pm 20$ pc to $330 \pm 11$ pc.

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