Stellar mass profile of the Galactic bulge, as a function of longitude, for different latitudes. The curves at low latitudes are shown on a different vertical scale, to increase visibility. This is a new version of Fig. 5 in Valenti et al. (2016) where we have imposed symmetry about the Galactic plane and about the bulge projected minor axis (l = 0). Statistical uncertainties, coming from the Poisson fluctuation on the number of RC stars are ∼ 1%. Errorbars of 15% of the data points are shown to account for the systematics, such as the IMF slope, the disk contamination and the adopted size of the RC box; see Valenti et al. (2016) for a discussion.