Journal article
The formation and early evolution of the Milky Way galaxy.
- Buser R Astronomisches Institut der Universität Basel, Venusstrasse 7, CH-4102 Binningen, Switzerland. Roland.Buser@unibas.ch
- 1999-12-30
Published in:
- Science (New York, N.Y.). - 2000
English
Recent observations indicate that the Milky Way may have formed by aggregation of gas and stars from a reservoir of preexisting small galaxies in the local universe. The process probably began more than 12 billion years ago with material of different original angular momentum following two separate evolutionary lines, one into the slowly rotating halo and central bulge and the other into the rapidly rotating disk. The existence of distinct thick and thin disks shows that continuing mergers of satellite galaxies likely also determined the early evolution of the main structural component of the luminous Galaxy.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1126/science.287.5450.69
- PMID 10615051
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/14983
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