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Supplement Series
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The Australia Telescope Compact Array is operated by the Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, as a national facility.
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The electronic version of this paper, including Table 1 and the spectra of Fig. 6, can be obtained from http://www.ed-phys.fr. Table 1 is available via anonymous ftp (130.79.128.5) or through the World Wide Web (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html).
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The reason for this apparent controversy is that the average surface density in this sample is only 0.9 stars per square degree (cf. 2.4 in the Bulge). Therefore, the statistical fluctuations are larger and there were simply no faint stars observed in the inner regions of the PB.

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