An upper limit on the granularity of the local stellar halo

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 592, Issue 2 II, 2003, Pages

  Gould, Andrew ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: formation; Galaxy; structure; Stars: kinematics; Stars: statistics; Subdwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041916144     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377525     Document Type: Article

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