Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ASP LaTeX. Invited Review at From Stars to Galaxies: Building the pieces to build up the Universe (Venice, October 16-20, 2006
Scientific paper
The Galaxy's stellar populations are naturally classified into six `types', of which five have been observed. These are the thin disk (Pop I in the historical scheme), a discrete thick disk (Pop I.5), the metal-rich bulge, which was not named in the Baade sequence, the rare field halo (Pop II), a population currently being accreted into the very outer halo filed (Pop Sgr?)and a hard to discover initial enriching Pop III. Each of these forms a group with astonishly tight correlations between chemical element ratios and other parameters. It is very hard to understand how the observed properties of any one of these populations can be the sum of many discrete histories, except for the minor continuing outer halo accretion. All these stellar populations are embedded in dark-matter, and allow the properties of dark matter to be measured on small scales. Intriguing and unexpected consistencies in the properties of this dark matter are being revealed.
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