Revealing Substructure in the Galactic Halo: The SEKBO RR Lyrae Survey

Keller, Stefan; Murphy, Simon; Prior, Sayuri; Da Costa, Gary; Schmidt, Brian

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Revealing Substructure in the Galactic Halo: The SEKBO RR Lyrae Survey

Date

2008

Authors

Keller, Stefan

Murphy, Simon

Prior, Sayuri

Da Costa, Gary

Schmidt, Brian

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present a search for RR Lyrae variable stars from archival observations of the Southern Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Object survey. The survey covers 1675 deg2 along the ecliptic to a mean depth of V = 19.5, i.e., a heliocentric distance of ∼50 kpc for RR L