The milky way tomography with SDSS. II. stellar metallicity

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 684, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 287-325

  Ivezić, Željko ^a   Sesar, Branimir ^a   Jurić, Mario ^b   Bond, Nicholas ^c   Dalcanton, Julianne ^a   Rockosi, Constance M ^d   Yanny, Brian ^e   Newberg, Heidi J ^f   Beers, Timothy C ^g   Prieto, Carlos Allende ^h   Wilhelm, Ron ⁱ   Lee, Young Sun ^g   Sivarani, Thirupathi ^g   Norris, John E ^j   Bailer Jones, Coryn A L ^k   Fiorentin, Paola R E ^k,l   Schlegel, David ^m   Uomoto, Alan ⁿ   Lupton, Robert H ^c   Knapp, Gillian R ^c   Gunn, James E ^c   Covey, Kevin R ^o   Smith, J Allyn ^p   Miknaitis, Gajus ^e   Doi, Mamoru ^q   Tanaka, Masayuki ^q   Fukugita, Masataka ^q   Kent, Steve ^e   Finkbeiner, Douglas ^o   Munn, Jeffrey A ^r   Pier, Jeffrey R ^r   Quinn, Tom ^a   Hawley, Suzanne ^a   Anderson, Scott ^a   Kiuchi, Furea ^a   Chen, Alex ^a   Bushong, James ^a   Sohi, Harkirat ^a   Haggard, Daryl ^a   Kimball, Amy ^a   Barentine, John ^s   Brewington, Howard ^s   Harvanek, Mike ^s   Kleinman, Scott ^s   Krzesinski, Jurek ^s   Long, Dan ^s   Nitta, Atsuko ^s   Snedden, Stephanie ^s   Lee, Brian ^m   Harris, Hugh ^r   Brinkmann, Jonathan ^s   Schneider, Donald P ^t   York, Donald G ^u   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

ⁱ TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^m LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^p AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^r FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^s APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^t PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxy: Halo; Galaxy: Kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: Stellar content; Galaxy: Structure; Methods: Data analysis; Stars: Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049086910     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589678     Document Type: Article

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