Galactic Thick Disk

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2864n&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2864. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Stellar Populations And Star Clusters

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The MILKY WAY (the Galaxy) possesses a number of different stellar components—often referred to as populations, following the pioneering work of WALTER BAADE in the 1940s. Each of these components is described by a fairly well-defined set of observed distributions of kinematics, chemical abundance and age and has a distinctive spatial distribution. A comparison of these populations with the ...

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