Models of the Galaxy and the massive spectroscopic stellar survey RAVE

Numerical simulations of galaxy formation and observational Galactic Astronomy are two fields of research that study the same objects from different perspectives. Simulations try to understand galaxies like our Milky Way from an evolutionary point of view while observers try to disentangle the curre...

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Main Author: Piffl, Tilmann
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universität Potsdam 2013
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-70371
http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/7037/