Galactic Stellar Populations in the Era of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Other Large Surveys
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1Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; email: [email protected] 2National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona 85719, and Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics ( JINA), Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824; email: [email protected] 3Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138; email: [email protected]
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