The century survey galactic halo project. II. Global properties and the luminosity function of field blue horizontal branch stars

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1097-1110

  Brown, Warren R ^a   Geller, Margaret J ^a   Kenyon, Scott J ^a   Kurtz, Michael J ^a   Prieto, Carlos Allende ^b   Beers, Timothy C ^c   Wilhelm, Ronald ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844511352     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431976     Document Type: Review

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