A Catalog of Distance Determinations for the LAMOST DR8 K Giants in the Galactic Halo

A Catalog of Distance Determinations for the LAMOST DR8 K Giants in the Galactic Halo

We present a catalog of distances for 19,544 K giants drawn from Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) DR8. Most of them are located in the halo of the Milky Way up to ∼120 kpc. There are 15% K giants without Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry, for which we suppl...

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Main Authors: Lan Zhang, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chengqun Yang, Feilu Wang, Hans-Walter Rix, Gang Zhao, Chao Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astronomical Journal
Subjects:
Distance measure
Stellar distance
K giant stars
Milky Way stellar halo
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acc9bb

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