Dissecting galaxy formation models with sensitivity analysis - A new approach to constrain the milky way formation history

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 787, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gómez, Facundo A ^a   Coleman Smith, Christopher E ^b   O'Shea, Brian W ^a   Tumlinson, Jason ^c   Wolpert, Robert L ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: formation; galaxy: formation; galaxy: halo; methods: analytical; methods: numerical; methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899990289     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/20     Document Type: Article

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