Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disk and Bulge

Abstract

Invited Review at IAU Symp 164 on Stellar Populations. The Milky Way Galaxy offers a unique opportunity for testing theories of galaxy formation and evolution. The study of the spatial distribution, kinematics and chemical abundances of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy allows one to address specific questions pertinent to this meeting such as When was the Galaxy assembled? Is this an ongoing process? What was the merging history of the Milky Way?

16 pages, Kluwer IAU Symp Latex file; one figure available by snail mail

References in corpus (12)

• The Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy: the two-infall model
• Quantifying the Fragility of Galactic Disks in Minor Mergers
• The Effects of a Photoionizing UV Background on the Formation of Disk Galaxies
• Excitation of Activity in Galaxies by Minor Mergers
• The Kinematics, Orbit, and Survival of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
• Galactic Bulges
• Chemistry and Kinematics in the Solar Neighborhood: Implications for Stellar Populations and for Galaxy Evolution
• Abundances in metal-rich stars - Detailed abundance analysis of 47 G and K dwarf stars with [Me/H] $>$ 0.10 dex
• The metallicity distribution of G dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood
• A Determination of the Thick Disk Chemical Abundance Distribution: Implications for Galaxy Evolution
• Tracing the Outer Structure of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: Detections at Angular Distances Between 10 and 34 Degrees
• Element Ratios and the Formation of the Stellar Halo

Cited by in corpus (4)

• High resolution infrared spectra of bulge globular clusters: Liller~1 and NGC 6553
• High resolution infrared spectra of bulge globular clusters: The extreme chemical abundances of Terzan 4 and Terzan 5
• A two-phase scenario for bulge assembly in LCDM cosmologies
• Wavelength and Redshift Dependence of Bulge/Total Light Ratios in Galaxies