Galactic Stellar Populations
天体物理学
2016-08-30 v1
摘要
The history of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy is found in the spatial distribution, kinematics, age and chemical abundance distributions of long-lived stars. From this fossil record one can in principle extract the star formation histories of different components, their chemical evolution, the stellar Initial Mass Function, the merging history -- what merged and when did it merge? -- and compare with theoretical models. Observations are driving models, and we live in exciting times.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0510025,
title = {Galactic Stellar Populations},
author = {Rosemary F. G. Wyse and Gerard Gilmore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0510025},
year = {2016}
}
备注
19 pages, invited review at the Cozumel/Cancun conference on Resolved Stellar Populations, April 2005. ASP Conference proceedings, eds D. Valls-Gabaud and M. Chavez