THE COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAM IN BAADES-WINDOW REVISITED

We have reanalyzed the OGLE V and I photometry of similar to 500,000 s tars in Baade's Window, and we confirm the extinction map published by Stanek. However, we find that the interpretation of the OGLE color-ma gnitude diagram for the dish: stars proposed by Paczynski et al. was i ncorrect: the dominant disk population in Baade's Window is old, and w e find no evidence for a large hole in the inner Galactic disk. We fin d evidence for a small systematic error in the OGLE photometry for sta rs below the ''red clump'': the (V-I) color indices of the faint stars with V>18 are too red by similar to 0.1 mag. We find tentative eviden ce from the OGLE and HST photometry that the bulge main-sequence turno ff point is brighter by similar to 0.5 mag than it is in either 47 Tuc or NGC 6791, indicating that the dominant population of the Galactic bulge is considerably younger than those clusters.