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Table 2

Some values of the scale lengths and scale heights from the literature (units in kpc), derived either with SDSS (visible) or 2MASS (near infrared red).

Reference Source Spatial range hr,thin hz,thin(R) hr,thick hz,thick(R)

López-Corredoira et al. (2002) 2MASS low Gal. latitudes 3.3 0.28
Cabrera-Lavers et al. (2005) 2MASS high Gal. latitudes 0.27 1.1
Bilir et al. (2006) SDSS interm. Gal. latitudes 1.9 0.22
Cabrera-Lavers et al. (2007) 2MASS interm. Gal. latitudes 0.19 0.96
Bilir et al. (2008) SDSS high Gal. latitutes 0.19 0.63
Jurić et al. (2008) SDSS r< 1.5 kpc 2.6 0.30 3.6 0.90
Chang et al. (2011) 2MASS interm.-high Gal. latitudes 3.7 0.36 5.0 1.0
Polido et al. (2013) 2MASS whole sky 2.1 0.21 3.0 0.64
Jia et al. (2014) SDSS+SCUSS interm. Gal. latitude 0.20 0.60

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