2 papers
astro-ph2003
Blue horizontal branch stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Kinematics of the Galactic halo
Edwin Sirko, Jeremy Goodman, Gillian R. Knapp +6
We carry out a maximum-likelihood kinematic analysis of a sample of 1170 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey presented in Sirko et al. (2003) (Pape…
astro-ph2003
Blue horizontal branch stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample selection and structure in the Galactic halo
Edwin Sirko, Jeremy Goodman, Gillian R. Knapp +6
We isolate samples of 733 bright (g < 18) and 437 faint (g > 18) high-Galactic latitude blue horizontal branch stars with photometry and spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Surve…