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Rotation Curve and Metallicity of the Outer Disc from Cepheids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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A group of faint, remote Cepheids in the outer disc of the Galaxy has been observed in spectroscopy and photometry. These Cepheids are used as tracers to measure the rotation curve of the disc beyond R=11 kpc, and to study the metallicity gradient in the outer disc.
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- Part 1. The Scientific Programme
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation , 1995 , pp. 194 - 195
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995