The galaxy in context: structural, kinematic, and integrated properties

J Bland-Hawthorn, O Gerhard - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is a benchmark for understanding disk galaxies. It is the only
galaxy whose formation history can be studied using the full distribution of stars from faint …

Star clusters across cosmic time

MR Krumholz, CF McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the ISM, gravitational
dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here, we review observations and theoretical …

The apache point observatory galactic evolution experiment (APOGEE)

SR Majewski, RP Schiavon… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), one of the
programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), has now completed its systematic …

The GALAH survey: scientific motivation

GM De Silva, KC Freeman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a large high-resolution
spectroscopic survey using the newly commissioned High Efficiency and Resolution Multi …

New constraints on the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc (s)-Improved astrophysical parameters for the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey

L Casagrande, R Schönrich, M Asplund… - Astronomy & …, 2011 - aanda.org
We present a re-analysis of the Geneva-Copenhagen survey, which benefits from the
infrared flux method to improve the accuracy of the derived stellar effective temperatures and …

The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early-type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow …

E Emsellem, M Cappellari, D Krajnović… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We provide a census of the apparent stellar angular momentum within one effective radius
of a volume-limited sample of 260 early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the nearby Universe, using …

The age structure of stellar populations in the solar vicinity-Clues of a two-phase formation history of the Milky Way disk

M Haywood, P Di Matteo, MD Lehnert, D Katz… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
We analyze a sample of solar neighborhood stars that have high-quality abundance
determinations and show that there are two distinct regimes of [α/Fe] versus age, which we …

A characteristic oxygen abundance gradient in galaxy disks unveiled with CALIFA

SF Sánchez, FF Rosales-Ortega… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
We present the largest and most homogeneous catalog of H ii regions and associations
compiled so far. The catalog comprises more than 7000 ionized regions, extracted from 306 …

LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (LEGUE)—The survey's science plan

LC Deng, HJ Newberg, C Liu, JL Carlin… - … in Astronomy and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the current plans for a spectroscopic survey of millions of stars in the Milky Way
galaxy using the Guo Shou **g Telescope (GSJT, formerly called the Large sky Area Multi …

Chemodynamical evolution of the Milky Way disk-I. The solar vicinity

I Minchev, C Chiappini, M Martig - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013 - aanda.org
In the first paper of this series, we present a new approach for studying the chemo-
dynamical evolution in disk galaxies, which consists of fusing disk chemical evolution …