GALAXIA: A CODE TO GENERATE A SYNTHETIC SURVEY OF THE MILKY WAY

We present here a fast code for creating a synthetic survey of the Milky Way. Given one or more color-magnitude bounds, a survey size, and geometry, the code returns a catalog of stars in accordance with a given model of the Milky Way. The model can be specified by a set of density distributions or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sharma, S, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Johnston, K, Binney, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2011