Light curve templates and galactic distribution of RR lyrae stars from sloan digital sky survey stripe 82

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 708, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 717-741

  Sesar, Branimir ^a   Ivezić, Željko ^a   Grammer, Skyler H ^a   Morgan, Dylan P ^a   Becker, Andrew C ^a   Jurić, Mario ^b   De Lee, Nathan ^c   Annis, James ^d   Beers, Timothy C ^e   Fan, Xiaohui ^f   Lupton, Robert H ^g   Gunn, James E ^g   Knapp, Gillian R ^g   Jiang, Linhua ^f   Jester, Sebastian ^h   Johnston, David E ^g   Lampeitl, Hubert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure; Methods: data analysis; Stars: statistics; Stars: variables: other; Stars:horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 73449112943     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/708/1/717     Document Type: Article

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