The Age of the Solar Neighbourhood

High-quality Hipparcos data for a complete sample of nearly 12000 main-sequence and subgiant stars, together with Padua isochrones, are used to constrain the star-formation history of the solar neigbourhood and the processes that stochastically accelerate disk stars. The velocity dispersion of a coe...

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Auteurs principaux: Binney, J, Dehnen, W, Bertelli, G
Format: Journal article
Publié: 2000