Tracing Milky Way substructure with an RR Lyrae hierarchical clustering forest
RR Lyrae variable stars have long been reliable standard candles used to discern structure in the Local Group. With this in mind, we present a routine to identify groupings containing a statistically significant number of RR Lyrae variables in the Milky Way environment. RR Lyrae variable groupings,...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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