The first all-sky view of the Milky Way stellar halo with Gaia+2MASS RR Lyrae
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2819