Bibcode
Vivas, A. K.; Zinn, R.; Gallart, C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Third International Meeting of Dynamic Astronomy in Latin America (Eds. Carlos Abad, Ángel Bongiovanni, & Yaneth Guillén) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 25, pp. 37-40 (2006) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
Fecha de publicación:
1
2006
Número de citas
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Descripción
We describe the latest results and future prospects of the QUEST survey
for RR Lyrae stars in the halo of the Milky Way. Because RR Lyrae
variables are excellent standard candles, they are very useful tools for
finding sub-structures in the halo that may be tidal tails from dwarf
galaxies or globular clusters. Also, we show that observations of the RR
Lyrae stars in the Sagittarius streams provide constraints on the shape
of the dark matter halo of our Galaxy.