We present the stellar kinematics across the Galactic bulge and into the disk at positive longitudes from the SDSS-III APOGEE spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way .
APOGEE includes extensive coverage of the stellar populations of the bulge along the mid-plane and near-plane regions .
From these data , we have produced kinematic maps of 10,000 stars across longitudes 0 ^ { \circ } < l < 65 ^ { \circ } , and primarily across latitudes of |b| < 5 ^ { \circ } in the bulge region .
The APOGEE data reveal that the bulge is cylindrically rotating across all latitudes and is kinematically hottest at the very centre of the bulge , with the smallest gradients in both kinematic and chemical space inside the inner-most region ( |l,b| ) < ( 5 ^ { \circ } ,5 ^ { \circ } ) .
The results from APOGEE show good agreement with data from other surveys at higher latitudes and a remarkable similarity to the rotation and dispersion maps of barred galaxies viewed edge on .
The thin bar that is reported to be present in the inner disk within a narrow latitude range of |b| < 2 ^ { \circ } appears to have a corresponding signature in [ Fe / H ] and [ \alpha / Fe ] .
Stars with [ Fe / H ] > –0.5 have dispersion and rotation profiles that are similar to that of N-body models of boxy/peanut bulges .
There is a smooth kinematic transition from the thin bar and boxy bulge ( l,|b| ) < ( 15 ^ { \circ } , 12 ^ { \circ } ) out into the disk for stars with [ Fe / H ] > -1.0 , and the chemodynamics across ( l,b ) suggests the stars in the inner Galaxy with [ Fe / H ] > -1.0 have an origin in the disk .