Uncovering the birth of the Milky Way through accurate stellar ages with Gaia

C Gallart, EJ Bernard, CB Brook, T Ruiz-Lara… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the ages of the stars formed over a galaxy's lifetime is fundamental to
an understanding of its formation and evolution. However, stellar ages are difficult to obtain …

Making Galaxies In a Cosmological Context: the need for early stellar feedback

GS Stinson, C Brook, AV Macciò… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We introduce the Making Galaxies In a Cosmological Context (MAGICC)
programme of smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. We describe a parameter …

GAIA: Composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy

MAC Perryman, KS de Boer, G Gilmore, E Høg… - Astronomy & …, 2001 - aanda.org
The GAIA astrometric mission has recently been approved as one of the next two"
cornerstones" of ESA's science programme, with a launch date target of not later than mid …

Star counts in the galaxy-simulating from very deep to very shallow photometric surveys with the trilegal code

L Girardi, MAT Groenewegen… - Astronomy & …, 2005 - aanda.org
We describe TRILEGAL, a new populations synthesis code for simulating the stellar
photometry of any Galaxy field. The code attempts to improve upon several technical …

Three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way disk: the distribution of stars and dust beyond 0.35 R☉

R Drimmel, DN Spergel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a three-dimensional model for the Milky Way fitted to the far-infrared (FIR) and
near-infrared (NIR) data from the COBE/DIRBE instrument for Galactic latitudes| b|< 30 &j0; …

Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data-Revisiting the concept of superclusters

B Famaey, A Jorissen, X Luri, M Mayor, S Udry… - Astronomy & …, 2005 - aanda.org
The availability of the Hipparcos Catalogue has triggered many kinematic and dynamical
studies of the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, those studies generally lacked the third …

L′ and M′ photometry of ultracool dwarfs

DA Golimowski, SK Leggett, MS Marley… - The Astronomical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We have compiled L'(3.4–4.1 μm) and M'(4.6–4.8 μm) photometry of 63 single and
binary M, L, and T dwarfs obtained at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope using the …

Determination of stellar ages from isochrones: Bayesian estimation versus isochrone fitting

BR Jørgensen, L Lindegren - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2005 - aanda.org
We present a new method, using Bayesian estimation, to determine stellar ages and their
uncertainties from observational data and theoretical isochrones. The result for an individual …

The Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey. III. Chromospheric activity, M dwarf ages, and the local star formation history

JE Gizis, IN Reid, SL Hawley - The Astronomical Journal, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopy of 676 nearby M dwarfs. Our
measurements include radial velocities, equivalent widths of important chromospheric …

The mass function of young star clusters in spiral galaxies

SS Larsen - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009 - aanda.org
Aims. The initial cluster mass function (ICMF) in spiral discs is constrained and compared
with data for old globular clusters and young clusters in starbursts. Methods. For a given …