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The Milky Way’s Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from the Kinematics of ~2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal-Branch Stars
- X.-X. Xue, H. Rix, +14 authors D. Schneider
- Physics
- 8 January 2008
We derive new constraints on the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo, based on 2401 rigorously selected blue horizontal-branch halo stars from SDSS DR6. This sample enables construction of the… Expand
Substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in SDSS Stripe 82
- L. Watkins, N. Evans, +12 authors Macquarrie
- Physics
- 2 June 2009
We present an analysis of the substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82, which covers 2°5 in declination on the celestial equator over the right ascension range α = 20… Expand
Kinematics of SDSS subdwarfs: structure and substructure of the Milky Way halo
We construct a new sample of ∼ 1700 solar neighbourhood halo subdwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), selected using a reduced proper-motion diagram. Radial velocities come from the SDSS… Expand
Modelling the Galactic bar using OGLE-II red clump giant stars
- N. Rattenbury, S. Mao, T. Sumi, M. Smith
- Physics
- 12 April 2007
Red clump giant (RCG) stars can be used as distance indicators to trace the mass distribution of the Galactic bar. We use RCG stars from 44 bulge fields from the OGLE-II microlensing collaboration… Expand
THE SAGITTARIUS STREAMS IN THE SOUTHERN GALACTIC HEMISPHERE
- Sergey E. Koposov, V. Belokurov, +32 authors Spain
- Physics
- 30 November 2011
The structure of the Sagittarius stream in the southern Galactic hemisphere is analyzed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 8. Parallel to the Sagittarius tidal track, but {approx}10… Expand
SLICING AND DICING THE MILKY WAY DISK IN THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
- M. C. Smith, M. Smith, S. H. Whiteoak, N. W. Evans
- Physics
- 6 February 2012
We use the Stripe 82 proper-motion catalog of Bramich et al. to study the kinematics of Galactic disk stars in the solar neighborhood. We select samples of dwarf stars with reliable spectra and… Expand
RR Lyrae in XSTPS: The Halo Density Profile in the North Galactic Cap
- L. Faccioli, M. Smith, +4 authors J.-S. Yao
- Physics
- 25 April 2014
We present a catalog of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed by the Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey (XSTPS). The area we consider is located in the north Galactic cap, covering approximate to… Expand
THE TILT OF THE HALO VELOCITY ELLIPSOID AND THE SHAPE OF THE MILKY WAY HALO
A sample of ~1800 halo subdwarf stars with radial velocities and proper motions is assembled from Bramich et al.'s light-motion catalog of 2008. This is based on the repeated multiband Sloan Digital… Expand
Learning Piece Values Using Temporal Differences
- D. F. Beal, M. Smith
- Computer Science
- J. Int. Comput. Games Assoc.
- 1997
Temporal difference learning applied to game playing and the results of application to Shogi
- D. F. Beal, M. Smith
- Computer Science
- Theor. Comput. Sci.
- 1 February 2001
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