Distant Field Blue Horizontal Branch Stars and the Mass of the Galaxy I: Classification of halo A-type stars

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Clewley, Lee
Warren, S J
Hewett, Paul C
Norris, John
Peterson, R
Evans, N W

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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This is the first in a series of three papers presenting a new calculation of the mass of the Galaxy based on radial velocities and distances measured for a sample of some 100 faint 16 < B < 20 field blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars. This study aims to

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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