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Quantifying Kinematic Substructure in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
Xiang-Xiang Xue, Hans-Walter Rix, Brian Yanny +13
We present and analyze the positions, distances, and radial velocities for over 4000 blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars in the Milky Way's halo, drawn from SDSS DR8. We search for…
Stellar Population Variations in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
Eric F. Bell, Xiang Xiang Xue, Hans-Walter Rix +2
If the stellar halos of disk galaxies are built up from the disruption of dwarf galaxies, models predict highly structured variations in the stellar populations within these halos.…
Photometric identification of blue horizontal branch stars
Kester W. Smith, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones, Rainer J. Klement +1
We investigate the performance of some common machine learning techniques in identifying BHB stars from photometric data. To train the machine learning algorithms, we use previousl…