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In this paper, late M giants star counts in the Milky Way central bulge are compared with those expected from the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs surface brightness distributions.
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Blanco, V.M., Blanco, B.M. Expected and observed late giant star counts in the Milky Way bulge. Astrophys Space Sci 118, 365–366 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00651149
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