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astro-ph2005
Halos of Spiral Galaxies. III. Metallicity Distributions
M. Mouhcine, R. M. Rich, H. C. Ferguson +2
(Abriged) We report results of a campaign to image the stellar populations in the halos of highly inclined spiral galaxies, with the fields roughly 10 kpc (projected) from the nucl…
astro-ph2005
Halos of Spiral Galaxies. I. The Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Distance Indicator
M. Mouhcine, H. C. Ferguson, R. M. Rich +2
We have imaged the halo populations of a sample of nearby spiral galaxies using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on broad the Hubble Space Telescope with the aim of studying the s…