Fig. 4.

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Face-on artistic representation of MW within the inner 20 kpc. The Sun is at (8, 0) kpc and the known GCs are indicated with ⊙ and purple filled circles, respectively. Reference lines are drawn to show the analysed areas (A, B, C and D), considering the Galactic bar as a symmetry axis (i.e., dashed line from top left to bottom right).
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