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GAIA: Understanding the Galaxy
Gerard Gilmore
The GAIA Observatory, ESA's Cornerstone 6 mission, addresses the origin and evolution of our Galaxy, and a host of other scientific challenges. GAIA will provide unprecedented posi…
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The Thick Disk-Halo Interface
Gerard Gilmore, Rosemary F. G. Wyse
The star formation history of a galaxy, explicitely here our Milky Way Galaxy, where the most detailed information is attainable, is the convolution of two functions. One function…