GALACTIC STRUCTURE FROM THE 2 MICRON GALACTIC SURVEY

The Two Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) is the most sensitive large scal e point source near infrared survey of the Galactic Plane yet attempte d. The Galactic plane has been drift-scanned in several regions over t he areas -5-degrees < l < 30-degrees, \b\ less-than-or-equal-to 15-deg rees and 30-degrees < l < 180-degrees, \b\ less-than-or-equal-to 5-deg rees. The survey is complete in the areas covered to magnitude m(k) = +9.8. So far, a total area of 255 square degrees has been mapped and 5 00000 objects have been detected, the majority of these in the Galacti c plane and with no visible counterparts. In this contribution we use data from the TMGS to probe the star distribution within the Galactic disk.