The stellar metallicity distribution in intermediate latitude fields
  with BATC and SDSS data
  Based on the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut (BATC) and Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) photometric data, we adopt SEDs fitting Method to evaluate the
metallicity distribution for \sim40,000 main-sequence stars in the Galaxy.
According to the derived photometric metallicities of these sample stars, we
find that the metallicity distribution shift from metal-rich to metal-poor with
the increase of distance from the Galactic center. The mean metallicity is
about of 1.5 \pm 0.2dex in the outer halo and 1.3 \pm 0.1 dex in the inner
halo. The mean metallicity smoothly decreases from -0.4 to -0.8 in interval 0 <
r \leq 5 kpc. The fluctuation in the mean metallicity with Galactic longitude
can be found in interval 4 < r \leq 8 kpc. There is a vertical abundance
gradients d[Fe/H]/dz\sim -0.21 \pm 0.05 dex kpc-1 for the thin disk (z \leq 2
kpc). At distance 2 < z \leq 5 kpc, where the thick disk stars are dominated,
the gradients are about of -0.16 \pm0.06 dex kpc-1, it can be interpreted as a
mixture of stellar population with different mean metallicities at all z
levels. The vertical metallicity gradient is - 0.05 \pm0.04 dex kpc-1 for the
halo (z > 5 kpc). So there is little or no metallicity gradient in the halo.
