Light curve templates of RR Lyrae stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Sesar B.
  2. Ivezic Z.
  3. Grammer S.H.
  4. Morgan D.P.
  5. Becker A.C.
  6. Juric M.,De Lee N.
  7. Annis J.
  8. Beers T.C.
  9. Fan X.
  10. Lupton R.H.
  11. Gunn J.E.,Knapp G.R.
  12. Jiang L.
  13. Jester S.
  14. Johnston D.E.
  15. Lampeitl H.
  16. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present an improved analysis of halo substructure traced by RR Lyrae stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) stripe 82 region. With the addition of SDSS-II data, a revised selection method based on new ugriz light curve templates results in a sample of 483 RR Lyrae stars that is essentially free of contamination. The main result from our first study persists: the spatial distribution of halo stars at galactocentric distances 5-100kpc is highly inhomogeneous. At least 20% of halo stars within 30kpc from the Galactic center can be statistically associated with substructure. We present strong direct evidence, based on both RR Lyrae stars and main-sequence stars, that the halo stellar number density profile significantly steepens beyond a Galactocentric distance of ~30kpc, and a larger fraction of the stars are associated with substructure. By using a novel method that simultaneously combines data for RR Lyrae and main-sequence stars, and using photometric metallicity estimates for main-sequence stars derived from deep co-added u-band data, we measure the metallicity of the Sagittarius dSph tidal stream (trailing arm) toward RA~2h-3h and DE~0{deg} to be 0.3dex higher ([Fe/H]=-1.2) than that of surrounding halo field stars.

Keywords
  1. visible-astronomy
  2. sloan-photometry
  3. variable-stars
  4. halo-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJ...708..717S
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/708/717
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17080717

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History

2012-03-26T12:34:16Z
Resource record created
2012-03-26T12:34:16Z
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2017-07-04T07:08:49Z
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