The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo
(2012)
Journal Article
Deason, A., Belokurov, V., Evans, N., Koposov, S., Cooke, R., Peñarrubia, J., …Olszewski, E. (2012). The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425(4), 2840-2853. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21639.x
We build a sample of distant (D > 80 kpc) stellar halo stars with measured radial velocities. Faint (20 < g < 22) candidate blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars were selected using the deep, but wide, multi-epoch Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry. Fo... Read More about The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo.