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astro-ph.GA2010★ 174 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 45 cited

Observational Evidence from SDSS for a Merger Origin of the Milky Way's Thick Disk

Marion Dierickx, Rainer J. Klement, Hans-Walter Rix +1

We test competing models that aim at explaining the nature of stars in the Milky Way that are well away (|z| 1kpc) from the midplane, the so-called thick disk: the stars m…