A short scale length for the α-enhanced thick disk of the milky way: Evidence from low-latitude segue data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 752, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cheng, Judy Y ^a   Rockosi, Constance M ^b   Morrison, Heather L ^c   Lee, Young Sun ^d   Beers, Timothy C ^d,e   Bizyaev, Dmitry ^f   Harding, Paul ^c   Malanushenko, Elena ^f   Malanushenko, Viktor ^f   Oravetz, Daniel ^f   Pan, Kaike ^f   Schlesinger, Katharine J ^b,g   Schneider, Donald P ^h   Simmons, Audrey ^f   Weaver, Benjamin A ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861491917     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/51     Document Type: Article

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