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Paper: Tracing Thick Disk and Halo of the Milky Way with Kinematics of sdB Stars
Volume: 275, Disks of Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Perturbations
Page: 129
Authors: Altmann, M.; de Boer, K. S.; Edelman, H.
Abstract: We determined the kinematics of 110 sdB stars. We calculated orbits and using these to derive scale heights. Most of the stars belongs to the thick disk which has a scale height of 0.9 kpc. About 10% of the stars belong to a much broader distribution, the galactic Halo.
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