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Photometric Identification and Dynamical Purification of Blue Horizontal-branch Stars in DESI MWS DR1

  • Authors: Shuai Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Kai Xiao, Guozhen Hu, Wenyuan Cui, Ce Cai, Shuai Feng, Jie Ju

Shuai Zhang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 286 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Independently normalized smoothed density distributions of ﹩{{ \mathcal S }}_{c}﹩ (left, ﹩| {{ \mathcal S }}_{c}| =7776﹩) and ﹩{{ \mathcal S }}_{p}﹩ (right, ﹩| {{ \mathcal S }}_{p}| =1461﹩) in the (g − z)0–(u − v)0 color space. The contaminants display a strongly asymmetric density profile. While the genuine BHB density contours remain compact and centrally peaked, the contaminant contours are elongated and diluted, with the highest relative density shifting toward the cluster’s boundary in the direction of (g − z)0 reddening and (u − v)0 dispersion.

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