The shape and profile of the milky way halo as seen by the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope legacy survey

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 731, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sesar, Branimir ^a,b   Jurić, Mario ^c   Ivezić, Željko ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure; stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955011372     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/731/1/4     Document Type: Article

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