In this note I show how the recently suggested membership of the open cluster Gaia 1 to the Galactic thick disk is based on incorrect assumptions about the structure of the disk itself, and neglect well-known observational evidences on the disk warp and flare.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.03997,
title = {Gaia 1 cannot be a Thick Disk Galactic cluster},
author = {Giovanni Carraro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03997},
year = {2018}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure, in press as a Research Note of the American Astronomical Society