A 10 000 star spectroscopic survey of the thick disc-halo interface: Phase-space sub-structure in the thick disc

Jayaraman, Apoorva; Gilmore, Gerard; Wyse, Rosemary F G; Norris, John; Belokurov, Vasily

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A 10 000 star spectroscopic survey of the thick disc-halo interface: Phase-space sub-structure in the thick disc

Date

2013

Authors

Jayaraman, Apoorva

Gilmore, Gerard

Wyse, Rosemary F G

Norris, John

Belokurov, Vasily

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We analyse a 10 000 star spectroscopic survey, focused on Galactic thick disc stars typically 2-5 kpc from the Sun, carried out using the AAOmega Spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). We develop methods for completeness correction of the s