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A. Miceli, A. Rest, G.A. Miknaitis, R. Covarrubias, C.W. Stubbs, S Hawley (U. of Washington (Seattle)), G Magnier (CFHT/U. of Hawaii), B Koehn, T Bowell (Lowell Obs), K Cook (IGPP/LLNL)
We have investigated 6000 sq. deg. of data from the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Survey (LONEOS) with more than 20 epochs down to a limiting magnitude of 19 in R (see Rest, et.al these proceedings). From this dataset, thousands of candidate RR Lyrae stars have been extracted. RR Lyrae stars are excellent standard candles for two reasons: they have characteristic lightcurves which make them easily identifiable, and they also have small scatter in their intrinsic brightness. Thus, a sufficiently large sample of Galactic RR Lyrae stars can probe the structure of the Galaxy. We present lightcurves of several newly discovered RR Lyrae. We also present follow-up photometry with the 3.5-m Apache Point Observatory (APO) and 0.76-m Manastash Ridge Observatory (MRO) to determine the degree of contamination and for the refinement of selection criteria. Finally, we present radial velocity measurements taken at APO for a small sample of RR Lyrae stars identified in LONEOS.
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