Taking the pulse of the outer Milky Way with HOWVAST: an RR Lyrae density profile out to $>$200 kpc

Gustavo E. Medina, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Jeffrey L. Carlin +4

In order to constrain the evolutionary history of the Milky Way, we hunt for faint RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) using Dark Energy Camera data from the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS)…