The selection of RR Lyrae stars using single-epoch data

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1096-1108

  Ivezić, Željko ^a,b   Vivas, A Katherina ^c   Lupton, Robert H ^b   Zinn, Robert ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES DE ASTRONOMÍA   (Venezuela)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244341447     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/427392     Document Type: Article

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