MaGICC thick disc – I. Comparing a simulated disc formed with stellar feedback to the Milky Way
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MaGICC Thick Disk I: Comparing a Simulated Disk Formed with Stellar Feedback to the Milky Way
We analyse the structure and chemical enrichment of a Milky Way-like galaxy with a stellar mass of 2 × 1010 M�, formed in a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. It is disc dominated with a flat rotation curve, and has a disc scalelength similar to the Milky Way’s, but a velocity dispersion that is ̃50 per cent higher. Examining stars in narrow [Fe/H] and [�/Fe] abundance ranges, we find rema...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1600