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

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

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

Date

2012

Authors

Akhter, Shaila

Da Costa, Gary

Keller, Stefan

Schmidt, Brian

Publisher

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