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The star-formation history of the Milky Way Galaxy

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (2008) 4 11-22
DOI: 10.1017/S1743921309031664
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The star-formation histories of the main stellar components of the Milky Way constrain critical aspects of galaxy formation and evolution. I discuss recent determinations of such histories, together with their interpretation in terms of theories of disk galaxy evolution.

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Wyse, R. F. G. (2008). The star-formation history of the Milky Way Galaxy. In Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (Vol. 4, pp. 11–22). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921309031664

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