Fig. 1. Orbits of 12 typical examples showing the disklike distribution of the sdB stars.
Fig. 2. Plot of the relative frequency N(z), based on all stars of our sample, to find a star at a given z-distance in the Milky Way (histogram bins are 100 pc wide). Note that for |z| ≤ 2 kpc the histogram is based on rapidly decreasing numbers of stars and the details of its shape there are thus not significant (Fig. 2 adapted from de Boer et al. 1997)