| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 19, 2012
Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
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| Article Number | 10007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | Galaxy Modelling: Stellar Population Models to Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910007 | |
| Published online | 07 February 2012 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121910007
A detailed self-consistent vertical Milky Way disc model
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
a e-mail: just@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
We present a self-consistent vertical disc model of thin and thick disc in the solar vicinity. The model is optimized to fit the local kinematics of main sequence stars by varying the star formation history and the dynamical heating function. The star formation history and the dynamical heating function are not uniquely determined by the local kinematics alone. For four different pairs of input functions we calculate star count predictions at high galactic latitude as a function of colour. The comparison with North Galactic Pole data of SDSS/SEGUE leads to significant constraints of the local star formation history.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2012
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