Our milky way as a pure-disk galaxy - A challenge for galaxy formation

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 720, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Shen, Juntai ^a,b   Rich, R Michael ^c   Kormendy, John ^b   Howard, Christian D ^c,d   De Propris, Roberto ^e   Kunder, Andrea ^e  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349293154     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/720/1/L72     Document Type: Article

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