ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 02 63 6 v 1 2 6 Fe b 20 04 Galactic Structure
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Our Milky Way Galaxy is a typical large spiral galaxy, representative of the most common morphological type in the local Universe. We can determine the properties of individual stars in unusual detail, and use the characteristics of the stellar populations of the Galaxy as templates in understanding more distant galaxies. The star formation history and merging history of the Galaxy is written in its stellar populations; these reveal that the Galaxy has evolved rather quietly over the last ∼ 10 Gyr. More detailed simulations of galaxy formation are needed, but this result apparently makes our Galaxy unusual if ΛCDM is indeed the correct cosmological paradigm for structure formation. While our Milky Way is only one galaxy, a theory in which its properties are very anomalous most probably needs to be revised. Happily, observational capabilities of next-generation facilities should, in the the forseeable future, allow the aquisition of detailed observations for all galaxies in the Local Group.
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