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Porcel, C.; Battaner, E.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 06/1995, Letnik: 274, Številka: 4Journal Article
From a sample presented by Reed containing OB stars with a heliocentric distance greater than 5kpc, we have selected those stars with a galactocentric azimuth between 240° and 275°, i.e. in the region of the maximum warp in the southern hemisphere. Only nine stars have these characteristics, but they permit a first, unambiguous detection of the southern stellar warp in the Milky Way. This seems to be as large as the gaseous warp, and does not present evidence of twisting of the line of nodes. Flaring of the stellar distribution with respect to the centroid of the HI warp is also noticeable.
