the Milky Way
The Milky Way. The Milky Way
... Within 1000 pc of the galactic center, the stars are no longer confined to the disk but rather form a spheroidal nuclear bulge of old stars. The following slide shows a side view of The Galaxy. The one after that is an ...
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Populations and Components of the Milky Way
... the Milky Way culminated in 1957 Vatican Symposium, which legitimized an extended version of Baade’s system including several intermediate popula- ...
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Simulating the Milky Way is hard
... Abstract. The formation of the Milky Way in the currently accepted concordance cosmology presents a couple of pitfalls. Mostly, these involve the much reported overcooling problem. If gas is allowed to ...
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The Milky Way as a Star Formation Engine
... Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada The cycling of material from the interstellar medium (ISM) into stars and the return of stellar ejecta into the ISM is the engine that drives the galactic ecology in normal spirals. ...
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Mass extinction and the structure of the Milky Way
... up-to-date Milky Way model and solar orbit data in order to test the hypothesis that the Sun’s galactic spiral arm crossings cause mass extinction events on ...the Milky Way’s spiral arms by ...
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Giant molecular filaments in the Milky Way
... Most filaments have some association with – at most – a low level of star formation. As our technique requires the GMFs to appear in extinction, we are especially sensitive to quiescent clouds. Using their positions and ...
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Modelling the Milky Way as a dry Galaxy
... the Milky-Way Galaxy composed of a stellar disc and bulge embedded in a dark-matter ...the Milky Way Galaxy, we conclude that a disc mass of ∼ ...
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Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way
... Tracing the themes in my work over the past two decades has al- lowed me to see up close my tra- jectory from victim to victory. Re- turning to the fragment from the development of Princess Pocahontas noted at the ...
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Constraining the formation of the Milky Way: Ages
... the Milky Way, which combines a thin disk chemical evolution model with the dynamics from N-body simulation of a galaxy with properties similar to those of our ...
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The Milky Way and other spiral galaxies
... the Milky Way as a typical spiral galaxy, and its properties have considerably influenced the current scheme of galaxy ...the Milky Way disk and halo with those of galaxies selected from the ...
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The formation of the Galactic bulge of the Milky Way
... the Milky Way bulge was formed via mergers (classical bulges), or disk instability (boxy bulges) and to achieve our aims we are undertaking a spectroscopic survey at medium resolution in order to ...
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CiteSeerX — The radial scale length of the Milky Way
... Abstract. The radial scale length of the exponential component of the disc of the Milky Way has been determined in the near infrared. We have used the TMGS (Two Micron Galactic Survey) database which ...
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Towards the big picture of the Milky Way bulge
... The Milky Way bulge provides an important laboratory to investigate the imprints of how the Galaxy formed and ...the Milky Way bulge shows a radial metallicity gradient along the minor axis ...
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The consequences of dwarf galaxies colliding with the Milky Way
... the Milky Way and their globular clusters felt the grav- itational forces from their host satellite galaxy, the Milky Way and 10 of the classical satellite ...
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The Age Distribution of Stars in the Milky Way Bulge
... the Milky Way. 1. INTRODUCTION The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a boxy/peanut bulge morphology and an X-shaped struc- ture (see Gonzalez & Gadotti 2016, and references ...the ...
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Velocity Dispersion Profile of the Milky Way Halo
... The caustic technique can be applied to any self- gravitating system. The technique is non-parametric and does not require that the tracers of the potential be in virial equilibrium. It is an effective tool for ...
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The Milky Way Galaxy is Heading for a Major Cosmic Collision
... – Similar to the velocity which which human hair grows, as seen at the distance of the Moon • In physical terms, the sideways velocity of M31 relative to the Milky Way is consistent with zero, and less than ...
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Studies of dust and gas in the interstellar medium of the Milky Way
... the Milky Way Most of the light we see with our eyes on a dark night is produced by ...the Milky Way is in the interstellar medium (ISM), ...
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The tilt of the velocity ellipsoid in the Milky Way with Gaia DR2
... The velocity distribution of stars is a sensitive probe of the gravitational potential of the Galaxy, and hence of its dark matter dis- tribution. In particular, the shape of the dark halo (e.g. spherical, oblate, ...
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R-process-rich stellar streams in the Milky Way
... the Milky Way provides a unique window into the chemical and dynamical evolution of the uni- verse through the study of its dwarf galaxies, globular clusters, and stellar ...
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