The formation of a thick disk through the heating of a thin disk: Agreement with orbital eccentricities of stars in the solar neighborhood

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 525, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Di Matteo, P ^a   Lehnert, M D ^a   Qu, Y ^a   Van Driel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure; Solar neighborhood

Indexed keywords

GALAXY: EVOLUTION; GALAXY: FORMATION; GALAXY: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXY: STRUCTURE; SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD;

HEATING; KINEMATICS; MERGING; SATELLITES; SPOT WELDING; STARS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 79251472414     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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