• DOI:10.1086/516727
Corpus ID: 18002823

The Milky Way, an Exceptionally Quiet Galaxy: Implications for the Formation of Spiral Galaxies

@article{Hammer2007TheMW,
  title={The Milky Way, an Exceptionally Quiet Galaxy: Implications for the Formation of Spiral Galaxies},
  author={F. Hammer and M. Puech and L. Chemin and H. Flores and M. Lehnert},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2007},
  volume={662},
  pages={322-334}
}

F. Hammer, M. Puech, +2 authors M. Lehnert

Published 2007

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

The Milky Way has been generally considered to be representative of the numerous spiral galaxies inhabiting the local Universe, thus providing general and perhaps the most detailed constraints on numerical models of galaxy formation. We compare both the Milky Way and M31 galaxies to local external disk galaxies within the same mass range, using their locations in the planes drawn by Vf lat versus MK (the “Tully-Fisher” relation), jdisk (angular momentum) and the average Fe abundance, [Fe/H], of… CONTINUE READING

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