A-type stars in the Canada–France Imaging Survey I. The stellar halo of the Milky Way traced to large radius by blue horizontal branch stars

Guillaume F. Thomas (1) , Alan Mcconnachie (1) , Rodrigo Ibata (2) , Patrick Côté (1) , Nicolas Martin (2) , Else Starkenburg , Raymond Carlberg , Scott Chapman , Sébastien Fabbro , Benoit Famaey (2) , Nicholas Fantin , Stephen Gwyn (1) , Vincent Hénault-Brunet , Khyati Malhan (2) , Julio Navarro , Annie Robin (3) , Douglas Scott

1 NRC - National Research Council of Canada
2 ObAS - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
3 UTINAM - Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213)

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Astrophysique galactique [astro-ph.GA]

Guillaume F. Thomas, Alan Mcconnachie, Rodrigo Ibata, Patrick Côté, Nicolas Martin, et al.. A-type stars in the Canada–France Imaging Survey I. The stellar halo of the Milky Way traced to large radius by blue horizontal branch stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 481 (4), pp.5223-5235. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty2604⟩. ⟨hal-02306458⟩