Age velocity dispersion relations and heating histories in disc galaxies
We analyse the heating of stellar discs by non axisymmetric structures and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in N-body simulations of growing disc galaxies. The analysis resolves long-standing discrepancies between models and data by demonstrating the importance of distinguishing between measured age-ve...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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