Before the Bar: Kinematic Detection of A Spheroidal Metal-Poor Bulge
  Component
  We present 947 radial velocities of RR Lyrae variable stars in four fields
located toward the Galactic bulge, observed within the data from the ongoing
Bulge RR Lyrae Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA-RR). We show that these RR Lyrae
stars exhibit hot kinematics and null or negligible rotation and are therefore
members of a separate population from the bar/pseudobulge that currently
dominates the mass and luminosity of the inner Galaxy. Our RR Lyrae stars
predate these structures, and have metallicities, kinematics, and spatial
distribution that are consistent with a "classical" bulge, although we cannot
yet completely rule out the possibility that they are the metal-poor tail of a
more metal rich ([Fe/H] ~ -1 dex) halo-bulge population. The complete catalog
of radial velocities for the BRAVA-RR stars is also published electronically.
