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Vol. 19 (2012)

Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way


Le Grand-Bornand, France, April 17-22, 2011

C. Reylé, A. Robin and M. Schultheis (Eds.)

ISBN:978-2-7598-0718-5



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Editorial
Editorial    00001
Céline Reylé, Annie Robin and Mathias Schultheis
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121900001


-  Dark Matter Question: Milky Way Meets Lambda-CDM Cosmology
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Chemical evolution in hierarchical scenarios    01001
P.B. Tissera
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901001

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Formation of Milky Way-type stellar haloes in a Λ-CDM cosmology    01002
A.S. Font
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901002

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Andromeda and the Milky Way: Twin sisters, distant relations, or strangers in the night?    01003
A. McConnachie, J. Richardson, D. Mackey and the PAndAS collaboration
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901003

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The Milky Way and other spiral galaxies    01004
F. Hammer, M. Puech, H. Flores, Y.B. Yang, J.L. Wang and S. Fouquet
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901004

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Simulating the Milky Way is hard    01005
G. Stinson and C. Brook
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901005

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Rotation curve of the Milky Way    01006
O. Golubov, A. Just, T.C. Beers and Y.S. Lee
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901006

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Could M31 be the result of a major merger?    01007
S. Fouquet, F. Hammer, Y.-B. Yang, J. Wang, M. Puech and H. Flores
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901007

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Limits on the local dark matter density    01008
S. Garbari, J.I. Read and G. Lake
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901008

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The shape of dark matter haloes in the Aquarius simulations: Evolution and memory    01009
C.A. Vera-Ciro, L.V. Sales and A. Helmi
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901009

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Kinematic and chemical components in the solar neighbourhood    01010
J.F. Navarro
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121901010



-  First Epochs Assembly: Halo Assembly, Streams, Which Timescale?
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The assembly of the halo system of the Milky Way as revealed by SDSS/SEGUE – The CEMP star connection    02001
T.C. Beers and D. Carollo
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902001

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Mapping the Galactic halo with main-sequence and RR Lyrae stars    02002
B. Sesar
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902002

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Dynamics of stellar and HI streams in the Milky Way halo    02003
S. Jin
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902003

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Galactic substructure traced by RR Lyraes in SDSS Stripe 82    02004
L. Watkins
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902004

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Using frequency maps to explore the distribution function of the Milky Way stellar halo    02005
M. Valluri
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902005

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On the age of field halo stars    02006
P. Jofré
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902006

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Sub-structures in the inner halo of the Milky Way    02007
A.K. Vivas, R. Zinn, S. Duffau and Y. Jaffé
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902007

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High-velocity streams in the Milky Way halo with the SDSS and GSC-II kinematic survey    02008
P. Re Fiorentin, M.G. Lattanzi, R.L. Smart, A. Spagna, T.C. Beers and A. Curir
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902008

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S-process in low-mass extremely metal-poor stars    02009
M.A. Cruz, A. Serenelli and A. Weiss
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121902009



-  Inside Galaxy Stubs or Relics of First Stubs: Stellar Populations in the New Milky Way Satellites
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Are dSph galaxies Galactic building blocks?    03001
G. Gilmore and H.M. Asiri
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903001

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The puzzling assembly of the Milky Way halo – contributions from dwarf Spheroidals and globular clusters    03002
A. Koch, S. Lépine and Ş. Çalışkan
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903002

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The dynamical fingerprint of gas-expulsion: Insights into the assembly of the Milky Ways’ old GC system    03003
M. Marks and P. Kroupa
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903003

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Stellar population gradients in isolated, local group dwarf galaxies    03004
S.L. Hidalgo
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903004

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Constraining local UV field geometry at reionization using Milky Way satellites    03005
P. Ocvirk and D. Aubert
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903005

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Counter-orbiting tidal debris as the origin of the MW DoS    03006
M.S. Pawlowski
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903006

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Two views of globular cluster stars in the Galactic halo    03007
S.L. Martell
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903007

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Looking for tidal streams around Galactic globular clusters    03008
J.A. Carballo-Bello and D. Martínez-Delgado
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903008

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Schwarzschild models of the Sculptor dSph galaxy    03009
M.A. Breddels, A. Helmi, R.C.E. van den Bosch, G. van de Ven and G. Battaglia
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903009

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Orbits of LMC/SMC with recent ground-based proper motions    03010
K. Bartošková, B. Jungwiert, A. Růžička and E. Costa
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121903010



-  Thick Disc Formation: New Observational Constraints and Alternative Scenarios
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Chemical constraints on the formation of the Galactic thick disk    04001
T. Bensby and S. Feltzing
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904001

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Two characteristics of thick disks formed through minor mergers: Orbital eccentricities and stellar excess    04002
P. Di Matteo, Y. Qu, M.D. Lehnert and W. van Driel
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904002

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Origins of the thick disk of the galaxy as traced by metal-poor stars selected from RAVE    04003
G.R. Ruchti
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904003

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The stellar populations of the Milky Way in CFHTLS fields    04004
M. Guittet, M. Haywood and M. Schultheis
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904004

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Thick disk and pseudobulge formation in a clump cluster    04005
S. Inoue
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904005

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Gauging the Galactic thick disk with RR Lyrae stars    04006
C. Mateu, K. Vivas, J.J. Downes, C. Briceño and G. Cruz
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904006

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Chemo-orbital evidence from SDSS/SEGUE G dwarf stars for a mixed origin of the Galactic thick disk    04007
C. Liu and G. van de Ven
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121904007



-  Disc Assembly: Chemo-Dynamical Evolution, Radial Mixing
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Observational constraints on the radial mixing of stars in the galactic disk    05001
M. Haywood
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905001

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Kinematic groups across the MW disc: Insights from models and from the RAVE catalogue    05002
T. Antoja, A. Helmi, F. Figueras, M. Romero-Gómez and RAVE collaboration
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905002

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What velocities and eccentricities tell us about radial migration    05003
R. Schönrich
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905003

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Solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc(s): New constraints    05004
L. Casagrande and R. Schönrich
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905004

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First results for the solar neighborhood of the Asiago Red Clump Survey    05005
M. Valentini, U. Munari, T. Saguner, K. Freeman, S. Pasetto, J. Montalbán and E.K. Grebel
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905005

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Chemical composition of stars in kinematical substructures of the galactic disk    05006
T.V. Mishenina, C. Soubiran, S.A. Korotin, T.I. Gorbaneva and N. Yu Basak
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905006

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Chemical analysis of ancient relicts in the Milky Way disk    05007
E. Stonkutė, R. Ženovienė, G. Tautvaišienė and B. Nordström
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905007

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Thick disk kinematics from RAVE and the solar motion    05008
S. Pasetto, E.K. Grebel and the RAVE Co.
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905008

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The kinematical evolution of the Galactic disk    05009
B. Anguiano, K. Freeman, M. Steinmetz, E.W. de Boer and RAVE collaboration
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905009

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The distribution of the elements in the thin disc from classical Cepheids    05010
B. Lemasle, V.V. Kovtyukh, P. François, G. Bono, C.D. Laney, A. Piersimoni, S. Pedicelli, F. Primas and M. Romaniello
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905010

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Large scale characterization of the stellar velocity distribution in the galactic disk    05011
S. Roca-Fàbrega, O. Valenzuela, F. Figueras, M. Romero-Gómez and T. Antoja
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905011

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Solar-like pulsating stars as distance indicators: G-K giants in the CoRoT and Kepler fields    05012
A. Miglio, T. Morel, M. Barbieri, B. Mosser, L. Girardi, J. Montalbán and M. Valentini
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905012

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Spectral diagnostics of late-type stars: Non-LTE and <3D> approach    05013
M. Bergemann, K. Lind, R. Collet, M. Asplund and Z. Magic
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121905013



-  Inner Galaxy: Bulge/Bar/Inner Disc Interplay, Role of Mergers
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Inner galactic disc metallicity distributions and the bulge-disc relation    06001
V. Hill, C. Babusiaux, A. Gómez, M. Haywood, D. Katz and F. Royer
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906001

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The chemical evolution of the Galactic Bulge seen through micro-lensing events    06002
S. Feltzing, T. Bensby, J. Meléndez, D. Adén, M. Asplund, A. Gould, J. Johnson, S. Lucatello and A. Gal-Yam
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906002

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The formation of the Galactic bulge of the Milky Way    06003
M. Ness and K. Freeman
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906003

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Towards understanding the dynamics of the bar/bulge region in our Galaxy    06004
E. Athanassoula
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906004

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Towards the big picture of the Milky Way bulge    06005
O.A. Gonzalez
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906005

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A new perspective on mapping the inner Galaxy    06006
G. Zasowski, R.A. Benjamin and S.R. Majewski
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906006

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Tracing major structures of the inner Galaxy with 6.7-GHz methanol masers    06007
J.A. Green, J.L. Caswell, N.M. McClure-Griffiths, A. Avison, S.L. Breen, M.G. Burton, S.P. Ellingsen, G.A. Fuller, M.D. Gray, M. Pestalozzi, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906007

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Dynamical evolution of a bulge in an N-body model of the Milky Way    06008
K. Saha, I. Martinez-Valpuesta and O. Gerhard
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906008

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Elemental abundances in AGB stars and the formation of the Galactic bulge    06009
S. Uttenthaler, J.A.D.L. Blommaert, T. Lebzelter, N. Ryde, P.R. Wood, M. Schultheis and B. Aringer
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906009

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Unifying the planar bar and the boxy bulge of the Milky Way    06010
I. Martinez-Valpuesta and O. Gerhard
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121906010



-  Disc Non-axisymetries: Spiral, Warp, Bar. What Structure, What Dynamics?
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Stellar kinematical signatures of disc non-axisymmetries in the extended solar neighbourhood    07001
B. Famaey, A. Siebert, I. Minchev and for the RAVE collaboration
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907001

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Modeling disc non-axisymmetries: Multiple patterns, radial migration, and thick disks    07002
I. Minchev, B. Famaey, A.C. Quillen and W. Dehnen
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907002

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Mechanisms based on chaotic flows that support structures in barred-spiral systems    07003
P.A. Patsis
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907003

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The collective origin of spiral structures in disk galaxies    07004
E. D’Onghia, M. Vogelsberger and L. Hernquist
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907004

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The orbit of the old, metal-rich, open cluster NGC 6791    07005
L. Jílková, G. Carraro, B. Jungwiert and I. Minchev
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907005

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Stellar dynamics around transient co-rotating spiral arms    07006
D. Kawata, R.J.J. Grand and M. Cropper
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907006

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Constraining the Milky Way potential using the dynamical kinematic substructures    07007
G. Monari, T. Antoja and A. Helmi
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907007

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Searching for the Perseus arm in the anticenter direction    07008
M. Monguió, P. Grosbøl and F. Figueras
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907008

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The dynamics of long-lived spiral arms    07009
M.S. Fujii, J. Baba, T.R. Saitoh, E. Kokubo, J. Makino and K. Wada
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121907009



-  How Stars and Interstellar Medium interplay? ISM Large Scale Structure, Stellar Formation, Gas Infall, Galactic Fountains, . . .
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Accretion by the Galaxy    08001
J. Binney and F. Fraternali
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908001

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Molecular gas and star formation in the Milky Way    08002
F. Combes
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908002

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The Milky Way and its gas: Cold fountains and accretion    08003
F.J. Lockman
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908003

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The infrared Galactic disk: What have we learned?    08004
E. Churchwell
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908004

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Chemical homogeneity in the Orion Association: Oxygen abundances of B stars    08005
K. Cunha, I. Hubeny and T. Lanz
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908005

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The interplay between the young stellar super cluster Westerlund 1, and the surrounding interstellar medium    08006
Y.D. Mayya, A. Luna, L. Carrasco and L. Bronfman
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908006

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How axi-symmetric is the inner HI disc of the Milky Way?    08007
A. Marasco and F. Fraternali
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908007

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Fountain-driven gas accretion by the Milky Way    08008
F. Marinacci, F. Fraternali, J. Binney, C. Nipoti, L. Ciotti and P. Londrillo
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121908008



-  Ongoing and Upcoming Surveys
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Surveys of the Milky Way and Magellanic System in the λ21-cm line of atomic hydrogen    09001
J.M. Dickey
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909001

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Astrometric surveys: Solving the Milky Way puzzle with Gaia    09002
A.G.A. Brown
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909002

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Galaxy modelling through stellar population synthesis    09003
A.C. Robin
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909003

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4MOST – 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope    09004
R.S. de Jong, C. Chiappini, O. Schnurr and the 4MOST consortium
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909004

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Investigating the Milky Way with the RAVE chemical catalog    09005
C. Boeche, A. Siebert and M. Steinmetz
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909005

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Binary stars in the RAVE survey    09006
G. Matijevič, T. Zwitter, U. Munari and the RAVE collaboration
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909006

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The ESO-Max Planck photometric and spectroscopic survey in the south: EMPhaSSiS    09007
B. Conn, A. Ederoclite, H.-W. Rix, N. Martin, N. Noël, T. Bensby, R. Lane, G. Lewis, R. Ibata, M. Irwin, et al. (2 more)
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909007

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The AMBRE project: Results from the MATISSE analysis of the ESO-FEROS archived spectra    09008
C.C. Worley, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, V. Hill and G. Kordopatis
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909008

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VVV: The near-IR Milky Way bulge and plane survey    09009
M. Rejkuba, O.A. Gonzalez, I. Toledo, D. Minniti, P. Lucas and the VVV team
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909009

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Automated stellar spectra parameterisation for Gaia-RVS    09010
G. Kordopatis, A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, A. Bijaoui, V. Hill, G. Gilmore, R.F.G. Wyse and C. Ordenovic
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909010



-  Galaxy Modelling: Stellar Population Models to Dynamics
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Comparing theoretical models of our galaxy with observations    10001
S. Sharma, J. Bland-Hawthorn, K.V. Johnston and J. Binney
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910001

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Dynamical models of the Galaxy    10002
P.J. McMillan
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910002

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Models of disk chemical evolution focusing the pure dynamical radial mixing    10003
A. Curir, A. Spagna, M.G. Lattanzi, G. Murante and P. Re Fiorentin
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910003

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Radioactive and kinematic tracers of feedback from massive stars    10004
R. Voss
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910004

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Preparing the Besançon Galaxy model for the comparison with Gaia data    10005
M. Czekaj, A.C. Robin, X. Luri and F. Figueras
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910005

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Applying the manifold theory to Milky Way models: First steps on morphology and kinematics    10006
M. Romero-Gómez, E. Athanassoula, T. Antoja and F. Figueras
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910006

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A detailed self-consistent vertical Milky Way disc model    10007
A. Just, O. Golubov and S. Gao
Published online: 7 February 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910007