Observational evidence from SDSS for a merger origin of the Milky Way's thick disk

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 725, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Dierickx, Marion ^a,b   Klement, Rainer ^b   Rix, Hans Walter ^b   Liu, Chao ^b  

^a HARVARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (Milky Way); Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650245049     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/725/2/L186     Document Type: Article

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