Milky Way Near Twins (MWNeTs). I. A Hierarchical Framework for Identifying the Evolutionary Counterparts of the Milky Way

I. B. Vavilova, A. M. Dmytrenko, D. V. Dobrycheva +8

The search for Milky Way (MW) analogues has traditionally relied on similarity in a limited set of present-day global properties, including morphology. However, galaxies with simil…