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The Merging History of the Milky Way Disk

Rosemary F. G. Wyse

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0012270

Abstract

The stellar populations of the stellar halo and of the thick disk of the Milky Way reveal much about the merging history that our Galaxy, a typical large disk galaxy, has experienced. Our current understanding, described here, implies a rather quiet evolution for the disk, back to redshifts of order 2.

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