Galactic Stellar Populations

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2005-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510025v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, invited review at the Cozumel/Cancun conference on Resolved Stellar Populations, April 2005. ASP Conference proceedi

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The history of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy is found in the spatial distribution, kinematics, age and chemical abundance distributions of long-lived stars. From this fossil record one can in principle extract the star formation histories of different components, their chemical evolution, the stellar Initial Mass Function, the merging history -- what merged and when did it merge? -- and compare with theoretical models. Observations are driving models, and we live in exciting times.

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