{
  "id": "1511.08438",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-11-26T16:14:09.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-11-26T16:14:09.000Z",
  "title": "Analysis of the Z Distribution of Young Objects in the Galactic Thin Disk",
  "authors": [
    "V. V. Bobylev",
    "A. T. Bajkova"
  ],
  "comment": "13 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables",
  "journal": "Astronomy Letters, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1-9",
  "doi": "10.1134/S1063773716010023",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.GA"
  ],
  "abstract": "We have obtained new estimates of the Sun's distance from the symmetry plane Zo and the vertical disk scale height h using currently available data on stellar OB associations, Wolf-Rayet stars, HII regions, and Cepheids. Based on individual determinations, we have calculated the mean Zo=-16+/-2 pc. Based on the model of a self-gravitating isothermal disk for the density distribution, we have found the following vertical disk scale heights: h = 40.2+/-2.1 pc from OB associations, h = 47.8+/-3.9 pc from Wolf-Rayet stars, h=48.4+/-2.5 pc from HII regions, and h = 66.2+/-1.6 pc from Cepheids. We have estimated the surface, \\sum=6 kpc^{-2}, and volume, D(Zo) = 50.6 kpc^{-3}, densities from a sample of OB associations. We have found that there could be approximately 5000 OB associations in the Galaxy.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-11-26T16:14:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "galactic thin disk",
      "young objects",
      "vertical disk scale height",
      "distribution",
      "hii regions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Astronomy Letters",
      "year": 2016,
      "month": "Jan",
      "volume": 42,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 1
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2016AstL...42....1B"
    }
  }
}