Tracing the galactic thick disk to solar metallicities

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 663, Issue 1 II, 2007, Pages

  Bensby, T ^a,b   Zenn, A R ^a   Oey, M S ^a   Feltzing, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: formation; Solar neighborhood; Stars: abundances; Stars: kinematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547187009     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519792     Document Type: Article

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