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Bar Formation in Milky Way type Galaxies
Open Astronomy, 2016 Many barred galaxies, possibly including the Milky Way, have cusps in their centers. There is a widespread belief, however, that the usual bar instability, which occurs in bulgeless galaxy models, is impossible for cuspy models because of the presence of
Polyachenko E. V., Berczik P., Just A.
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Gas and Star Formation in Satellites of Milky Way Analogs
The Astrophysical JournalWe have imaged the entirety of eight (plus one partial) Milky Way (MW)–like satellite systems, a total of 42 (45) satellites, from the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs II catalog in both H α and H i with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope and the ...
Michael G. Jones +11 more
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The Astronomical Journal, 2023 We investigate the kinematic-chemical distribution of red-giant branch stars from the LAMOST survey crossed matched with Gaia DR2 proper motions, and present time tagging for the well-known ridge structures (diagonal distributions for V _R in the R , V ...
Peng Yang +4 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg–Mn–Al–Fe plane with elemental abundances ...
Sofia Feltzing, Diane Feuillet
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Radial structure and formation of the Milky Way disc [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 Context. The formation of the Galactic disc is an enthusiastically debated issue. Numerous studies and models seek to identify the dominant physical process(es) that shaped its observed properties; for example, satellite accretion, starburst, quenching, gas infall, and stellar radial migration. Aims.
Katz, D. +4 more
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Chemodynamical Analysis of Metal-rich High-eccentricity Stars in the Milky Way's Disk
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We present a chemodynamical analysis of 11,562 metal-rich, high-eccentricity halo-like main-sequence stars, which have been referred to as the Splash or Splashed Disk, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...
Ayeon Lee +4 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We continue our series of papers on phase-space distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on photometrically derived metallicities and Gaia astrometry, with a focus on the halo−disk interface in the local volume.
Deokkeun An +3 more
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Abundance Gradients and the Formation of the Milky Way [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 In this paper we adopt a chemical evolution model, which is an improved version of the Chiappini, Matteucci and Gratton (1997) model, assuming two main accretion episodes for the formation of the Galaxy. The present model takes into account in more detail than previously the halo density distribution and explores the effects of a threshold density in ...
Cristina Chiappini +3 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 In the Λ-Cold Dark Matter model of the universe, galaxies form in part through accreting satellite systems. Previous works have built an understanding of the signatures of these processes contained within galactic stellar halos.
Danny Horta +9 more
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Star formation law in the Milky Way [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2017 Abstract The Schmidt law (SF law) in the Milky Way was investigated using 3D distribution maps of H ii regions and H i and molecular (H2) gases with spatial resolutions of ∼1 kpc in the Galactic plane and a few tens of pc in the vertical direction. H ii regions were shown to be distributed in a star-forming (SF) disk with nearly constant
Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Yoshiaki Sofue
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