The thick disk of the Milky Way Galaxy and its formation mechanisms

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Sep 2004

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Progress in Astronomy (ISSN 1000-8349), Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 235 - 244 (2004)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Astrophysics, Thick Disk, Review, Milky Way Galaxy, Galactic Disk, Formation Mechanisms

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The thick disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is of great importance to study structure and evolution of our Galaxy and external galaxies as well. The history of the researches on the Galactic structure and the processes to find the thick disk are briefly received. The current well-known properties of the thick disk are summarized. Possible mechanisms for the formation of the thick disk, including gravitational collapse, satellite mergers, direct accretion and kinematic diffusion, are presented and discussed in detail. It seems that mergers of satellite galaxies should be the most likely mechanism several giga years ago.

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