Formation of the Galactic bulge from a two-component stellar disc: Explaining cylindrical rotation and a vertical metallicity gradient

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Volumn 416, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bekki, Kenji ^a   Tsujimoto, Takuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: disc; Galaxy: evolution.; Galaxy: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052825830     PISSN: 17453933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01097.x     Document Type: Article

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