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The formation and early evolution of the Milky Way [PDF]

Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1985
In broad outline, the traditional picture for the formation of the Milky Way can be summarized as follows. The proto-galaxy consisted of a slowly rotating cloud of metal-free gas that cooled by bremsstrahlung and recombination radiation. As the internal pressure of the gas decreased, it collapsed in stages with smaller dimensions, faster rotation ...
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GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ∼10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of the Milky Way ...
Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Joan Najita, Christopher J. Manser, Constance Rockosi, Zachary Slepian, Mar Mezcua, Monica Valluri, Rana Ezzeddine, Sergey E. Koposov, Andrew P. Cooper, Arjun Dey, Boris T. Gänsicke, Ting S. Li, Katia Cunha, Siwei Zou, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Shaun Cole, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Kevin Fanning, Jaime Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Pascale Jablonka, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Martin Landriau, Axel de la Macorra, Aaron Meisner, Ramón Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sánchez, Michael Schubnell, Ray Sharples, Malgorzata Siudek, Verne V. Smith, Gregory Tarlé, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou   +50 more
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The origin of physical variations in the star formation law [PDF]

, 2013
Observations of external galaxies and of local star-forming clouds in the Milky Way have suggested a variety of star formation laws, i.e., simple direct relations between the column density of star formation (Sigma_SFR: the amount of gas forming stars ...
Federrath, Christoph
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A Model for the Formation of the Milky Way [PDF]

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2004
AbstractA new chemodynamical model for the formation and evolution of a Milky Way type galaxy is introduced. In this scenario, the galaxy forms inside a slowly growing dark matter halo in a ΛCDM cosmology. In contrast to the simple merger and collapse scenarios, the galactic mass grows continuously over a Hubble time.
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Formation of the Milky Way

, 1997
We review observational evidence bearing on the formation of a prototypical large spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. New ground- and space-based studies of globular star clusters and dwarf spheroidal galaxies provide a wealth of information to constrain theories of galaxy formation.
Hesser, J. E., Stetson, P. B., Harris, W. E., Bolte, M., Smecker-Hane, T. A., Vandenberg, D. A., Bell, R. A., Bond, H. E., Bergh, S. van den, McClure, R. D., Fahlman, G. G., Richer, H. B.   +11 more
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Traces of the formation history of the Milky Way [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2013
AbstractChemical and kinematical information is needed in order to understand and trace the formation history of our Galaxy. In the homogeneous large sample of F and G stars in the survey by Nordström et al. (2004), groups of stars with orbital parameters different from field stars were found by Helmi et al. (2006).
Nordström, Birgitta, Stonkute, E., Ženovienė, R., Tautvaišienė, G.   +3 more
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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., Gómez, A., Haywood, M., Snaith, O., Di Matteo, P.   +4 more
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The origin of the Milky Way globular clusters [PDF]

, 2016
We present a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy used to explore the formation and evolution of star clusters. We investigate in particular the origin of the bimodality observed in the colour and metallicity of globular clusters ...
Agertz, Oscar, Gieles, Mark, Renaud, Florent   +2 more
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The Galactic Bulge: A Review

, 2007
The Milky Way is the only galaxy for which we can resolve individual stars at all evolutionary phases, from the Galactic center to the outskirt. The last decade, thanks to the advent of near IR detectors and 8 meter class telescopes, has seen a great ...
Alard, Alves-Brito, Barbuy, Barbuy, Barbuy, Bica, Dante Minniti, Dwek, Hamadache, Harding, Immeli, Lecureur, Manuela Zoccali, Zoccali, Zoccali, Zoccali   +15 more
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The shapes of Milky Way satellites: looking for signatures of tidal stirring [PDF]

, 2012
We study the shapes of Milky Way satellites in the context of the tidal stirring scenario for the formation of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The standard procedures used to measure shapes involve smoothing and binning of data and thus may not be sufficient ...
Carlin, Jeffrey L., Kazantzidis, Stelios, Lokas, Ewa L., Majewski, Steven R., Mayer, Lucio, Moustakas, Leonidas A., Nidever, David L.   +6 more
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