Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-05-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 327 (2001) 329
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 5 encapsulated figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Minor changes, references updated
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04723.x
We use a cosmological galactic evolutionary approach to model the Milky Way. A detailed treatment of the mass aggregation and dynamical history of the growing dark halo is included, together with a self consistent physical treatment for the star formation processes within the growing galactic disc. This allows us to calculate the temporal evolution of star and gas surface densities at all galactic radii, in particular, the star formation history (SFH) at the solar radius. A large range of cosmological mass aggregation histories (MAHs) is capable of producing a galaxy with the present day properties of the Milky Way. The resulting SFHs for the solar neighbourhood bracket the available observational data for this feature, the most probable MAH yielding the optimal comparison with these observations. We also find that the rotation curve for our Galaxy implies the presence of a constant density core in its dark matter halo.
Avila-Reese Vladimir
Firmani Claudio
Hernandez Xabier
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