Unveiling a Young Thick Disk in the Milky Way
The thickness of a galaxy’s disk provides a valuable probe of its formation and evolution history. Observations of the Milky Way and local galaxies have revealed an ubiquitous disk structure with two distinctive components: an old thick disk and a relatively young thin disk. The formation of this du...
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2025-01-01
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Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adccb7 |
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