I review the properties of galactic stellar disks. The review includes the famous van der Kruit & Searle papers of the early 1980s, recent work on the structure of the outer regions of galactic disks including the problem of the radial truncation of disks, and galactic thick disks.
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Freeman, K. C. (2007). Stellar disks. In Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (Vol. 0, pp. 3–16). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5573-7_1
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