Probing the stellar halo of the milky way with the SEKBO RR Lyrae survey

Date

2012

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Akhter, Shaila
Da Costa, Gary
Keller, Stefan
Schmidt, Brian

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We investigate the steepening of the power-law slope beyond the Galactocentric radius of R ∼ 45kpc in the RR Lyrae (RRL) space density distribution found by Keller et al. They identified 2016 RRL candidates derived from the analysis of archival observat

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Keywords: Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: structure; stars: Population II; stars: variables: RR Lyrae

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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