The Merging History of the Milky Way Disk
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The stellar populations of the stellar halo and of the thick disk of the Milky Way reveal much about the merging history that our Galaxy, a typical large disk galaxy, has experienced. Our current understanding, described here, implies a rather quiet evolution for the disk, back to redshifts of order 2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012270,
title = {The Merging History of the Milky Way Disk},
author = {Rosemary F. G. Wyse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012270},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, LaTeX, three embedded figures, uses newpasp.sty. To appear in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, ASP Conference series, eds J.G. Funes and E.M. Corsini