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The milky way tomography with SDSS. III. Stellar kinematics

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2010

Authors

Bond, Nicholas
Ivezic, Zeljko
Sesar, Branimir
Juric, Mario
Munn, Jeffrey A.
Kowalski, Adam
Loebman, Sarah
Roskar, Rok
Beers, Timothy C
Dalcanton, Julianne

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r < 20 and proper-motion measurements derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and POSS astrometry, including ∼170,000 stars with radial-velocity measurements from

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Keywords: Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure; Methods: data analysis; Stars: statistics

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/60983

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ANU Research Publications

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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Journal article

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10.1088/0004-637X/716/1/1

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2037-12-31

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