An intermittent star formation history in a "normal" disk galaxy: The milky way

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 531, Issue 2 PART 2, 2000, Pages

  Rocha Pinto, Helio J ^a   Scalo, John ^b   Maciel, Walter J ^a   Flynn, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Formation; Galaxy: Evolution; Solar neighborhood; Stars: Formation; Stars: Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034628682     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312531     Document Type: Article

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