Exploring the variable sky with linear. II. Halo structure and substructure traced by RR Lyrae stars to 30 kpc

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sesar, Branimir ^a   Ivezić, Željko ^b   Scott Stuart, J ^c   Morgan, Dylan M ^b   Becker, Andrew C ^b   Sharma, Sanjib ^d   Palaversa, Lovro ^e   Jurić, Mario ^f,g   Wozniak, Przemyslaw ^h   Oluseyi, Hakeem ⁱ  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g LSST   (United States)

^h LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure; Stars: variables: RR Lyrae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880625311     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/146/2/21     Document Type: Article

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