The first all-sky view of the Milky Way stellar halo with Gaia+2MASS RR Lyrae
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2819
Abstract: We exploit the first Gaia data release to study the properties of the Galactic stellar halo as traced by RR Lyrae. We demonstrate that it is possible to select a pure sample of RR Lyrae… read more here.
Keywords: stellar halo; halo; milky way; lyrae ... See more keywords