Blue horizontal branch stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample selection and structure in the Galactic halo

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2003-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311324v1

Astron.J. 127 (2004) 899

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

35 pages including 14 figures, 5 in color; submitted to AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/381483

We isolate samples of 733 bright (g < 18) and 437 faint (g > 18) high-Galactic latitude blue horizontal branch stars with photometry and spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Comparison of independent photometric and spectroscopic selection criteria indicates that contamination from F and blue-straggler stars is less than 10% for bright stars (g<18) and about 25% for faint stars (g>18), and this is qualitatively confirmed by proper motions based on the USNO-A catalog as first epoch. Analysis of repeated observations shows that the errors in radial velocity are approximately 26 km/s. A relation between absolute magnitude and color is established using the horizontal branches of halo globular clusters observed by SDSS. Bolometric corrections and colors are synthesized in the SDSS filters from model spectra. The redder stars agree well in absolute magitude with accepted values for RR Lyrae stars. The resulting photometric distances are accurate to about 0.2 magnitudes, with a median of about 25 kpc. Modest clumps in phase space exist and are consistent with the previously reported tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. The sample is tabulated in electronic form in the online version of this article, or by request to the authors.

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