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Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1(440), p. 161-171

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu133

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Strong RR Lyrae excess in the Hercules-Aquila Cloud

Journal article published in 2014 by Iulia T. Simion, Vasily Belokurov, Mike Irwin, Sergey E. Koposov ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We map the large-scale sub-structure in the Galactic stellar halo using accurate 3D positions of ∼14 000 RR Lyrae reported by the Catalina Sky Survey. In the heliocentric distance range of 10–25 kpc, in the region of the sky approximately bounded by 30 ◦