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astro-ph.GA2012★ 142 cited
ARGOS II: The Galactic Bulge Survey
K. Freeman, M. Ness, E. Wylie de Boer +8
We describe the motivation, field locations and stellar selection for the ARGOS spectroscopic survey of 28,000 stars in the bulge and inner disk of the Milky Way galaxy across lati…
astro-ph.CO2012★ 10 cited
Bars and secular evolution in disk galaxies: Theoretical input
E. Athanassoula
Bars play a major role in driving the evolution of disk galaxies and in shaping their present properties. They cause angular momentum to be redistributed within the galaxy, emitted…
astro-ph.CO2012★ 69 cited
A unified picture of breaks and truncations in spiral galaxies from SDSS and S^{4}G imaging
Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Judit Bakos, Ignacio Trujillo +21
The mechanism causing breaks in the radial surface brightness distribution of spiral galaxies is not yet well known. Despite theoretical efforts, there is not a unique explanation…