The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXVII. Distant RR Lyrae Stars and the Milky Way Stellar Halo Out to 300 kpc

RR Lyrae stars are standard candles with characteristic photometric variability and serve as powerful tracers of Galactic structure, substructure, accretion history, and dark matter content. Here we report the discovery of distant RR Lyrae stars, including some of the most distant stars known in the...

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Hlavní autoři:	Yuting Feng, Puragra Guhathakurta, Eric W. Peng, Stephen D. J. Gwyn, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Jane Munsell, Manjima Talukdar
Médium:	Artigo
Jazyk:	Inglês
Vydáno:	IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Edice:	The Astrophysical Journal
Témata:	Milky Way stellar halo RR Lyrae variable stars
On-line přístup:	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2ae7
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