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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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DISSECTING GALAXY FORMATION MODELS WITH SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS—A NEW APPROACH TO CONSTRAIN THE MILKY WAY FORMATION HISTORY [PDF]
, 2013 We present an application of a statistical tool known as sensitivity analysis to characterize the relationship between input parameters and observational predictions of semi-analytic models of galaxy formation coupled to cosmological N-body simulations ...
F. G'omez +4 more
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Simulations of the Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone – II. Star formation [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 The Milky Way’s Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) has emerged in recent years as a unique laboratory for the study of star formation. Here we use the simulations presented in Tress et al. to investigate star formation in the CMZ.
M. Sormani +7 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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The Rapid Onset of Stellar Bars in the Baryon-dominated Centers of Disk Galaxies
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Recent observations of high-redshift galactic disks ( z ≈ 1–3) show a strong negative trend in the dark-matter (DM) fraction f _DM with increasing baryon surface density.
Joss Bland-Hawthorn +3 more
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The Imprint of Clump Formation at High Redshift. II. The Chemistry of the Bulge
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 In Paper I, we showed that clumps in high-redshift galaxies, having a high star formation rate density (Σ _SFR ), produce disks with two tracks in the [Fe/H]–[ α /Fe] chemical space, similar to that of the Milky Way’s (MW’s) thin+thick disks.
Victor P. Debattista +13 more
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The Tilt of the Velocity Ellipsoid of Different Galactic Disk Populations
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The tilt of the velocity ellipsoid is a helpful tracer of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way. In this paper, we use nearly 140,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and Gaia to make a detailed analysis of the tilt of the velocity ...
Weixiang Sun, Han Shen, Xiaowei Liu
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Orbital characteristics based on Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometric parameters are analyzed for ∼1700 r -process-enhanced (RPE; [Eu/Fe] > +0.3) metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] ≤ −0.8) compiled from the R -Process Alliance, the GALactic Archaeology with ...
Derek Shank +10 more
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The merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way’s inner stellar halo and thick disk [PDF]
Nature, 2018 The assembly of our Galaxy can be reconstructed using the motions and chemistry of individual stars1,2. Chemo-dynamical studies of the stellar halo near the Sun have indicated the presence of multiple components3, such as streams4 and clumps5, as well as
A. Helmi +5 more
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Distant Echoes of the Milky Way’s Last Major Merger
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The majority of the Milky Way’s stellar halo consists of debris from our galaxy’s last major merger, the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE). In the past few years, stars from the GSE have been kinematically and chemically studied in the inner 30 kpc of our ...
Vedant Chandra +11 more
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