Do the nearby blue horizontal branch stars belong to the thick disk or the halo?

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 3198-3209

  Kinman, T D ^a,d   Morrison, Heather L ^b   Brown, Warren R ^c  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d AURA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: structure; Stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349111651     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/137/2/3198     Document Type: Article

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