Popping star clusters as building blocks of the Milky Way's thick disc

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 415, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1280-1289

  Assmann, P ^a   Fellhauer, M ^a   Kroupa, P ^b   Bruns R C ^b   Smith, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters: general; Galaxy: disc; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; SUPERNOVAE;

GALACTIC DISKS; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS: GENERALS; GALAXY FORMATIONS; GALAXY: DISKS; MASSIVE STARS; METHOD: NUMERICAL; MILKY WAYS; STAR CLUSTERS; THICK DISCS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 79960581803     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18773.x     Document Type: Article

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