Astrophysical: Milky Way Galaxy

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    Rotation found in three galaxies satellites of the Milky Way
    An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science...
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    SEGUE-2: Old Milky Way Stars Near and Far
    The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration 2 (SEGUE-2) obtained 128,288 low-resolution spectra (R ~ 1800) of 118,958 unique stars in the...
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    Star formation in stellar systems
    The present volume on stellar formation discusses basic physical principles relevant to such processes, regions of recent star formation, galaxy formation and...
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    Stochasticity in galactic models
    The effect of a spiral-like perturbation in the orbits of an axisymmetric galactic potential is studied using surfaces of section. It is found that the...
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    Surveying the Galactic plane
    This paper discusses the Galactic plane as a case history of the application of different kinds of data bases to the problem of the large-scale Galactic...
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    TESS satellite dates an ancient collision with our galaxy
    From a single bright star in the constellation of Indus, an international team of scientists led by the University of Birmingham, with the participation of...
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    The early days of the Milky Way revealed
    A study led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) puts a sequence to the events which gave rise to our Galaxy.
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    The early nucleosynthesis of O and Fe
    The new observational O/Fe vs Fe/H relationship in halo dwarfs is analyzed in terms of a model of chemical evolution for the solar neighborhood. The role of...
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    The G-dwarf problem - A tentative analytical approach, relaxing instantaneous recycling
    The general solution for the birth function B(m,t) of stars, derived by Casuso et al. (1989) was used to obtain a first-order analytical approximation to this...