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The stellar halo of the Milky Way traced by blue horizontal-branch stars in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

The stellar halo of the Milky Way traced by blue horizontal-branch stars in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey

Abstract We report on the global structure of the Milky Way (MW) stellar halo up to its outer boundary based on the analysis of blue horizontal-branch stars (BHBs). These halo tracers are extracted from the (g, r, i, z)-band multi-photometry in the internal data release of the ongoing Hyper Suprime-Cam …