Identification of a-colored stars and structure in the halo of the Milky Way from Sloan digital sky survey commissioning data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 540, Issue 2 PART 1, 2000, Pages 825-841

  Yanny, Brian ^a   Newberg, Heidi Jo ^b   Kent, Steve ^a   Laurent Muehleisen, Sally A ^c   Pier, Jeffrey R ^d   Richards, Gordon T ^e   Stoughton, Chris ^a   Anderson Jr , John E ^a   Annis, James ^a   Brinkmann, J ^f   Chen, Bing ^g   Csabai, István ^h   Doi, Mamoru ⁱ   Fukugita, Masataka ^i,j   Hennessy, G S ^k   Ivezić, Željko ^l   Knapp, G R ^l   Lupton, Robert ^l   Munn, Jeffrey A ^d   Nash, Thomas ^a   Rockosi, Constance M ^e   Schneider, Donald P ^m   Smith, J Allyn ⁿ   York, Donald G ^e   more..

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   (United States)

^d FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^j INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^k US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^m PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Blue stragglers; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: structure; Stars: early type; Stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034633017     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/309386     Document Type: Article

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