This paper presents an analysis of the first 2MASS (The Two Micron All Sky Survey) sampler data as observed at lower Galactic
latitude in our Galaxy. These new near-infrared data provide insight into the structure of the thin disk of our Galaxy, The
interpretation of star counts and color distributions of stars in the near-infrared with the synthetic stellar population
model, gives strong evidence that the Galactic thin disk density scale length,
h
R
, is rather short (2.7 ± 0.1 kpc).
Key words Galaxy: stellar content - Galaxy: structure