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EAS Publications Series
Volume 67-68, 2014
The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases
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| Page(s) | 331 - 338 | |
| Section | Extended Question and Answer Session | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1567059 | |
| Published online | 17 July 2015 | |
N.A. Walton, F. Figueras, L. Balaguer-Núñez and C. Soubiran (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 67–68 (2014) 331-338
What drives the evolution of the Milky Way's disk?
1 Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
2 John Bahcall Fellow
e-mail: bovy@ias.edu
Data from the recently launched Gaia satellite in combination with data from large spectroscopic and asteroseismology surveys will allow great progress in unraveling the evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk over the next decade. Here, I briefly review the progress made with observations in the solar neighborhood in constraining the main processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Galactic disk. I then focus on recent new insights on the chemo-dynamical structure of the disk from SEGUE and APOGEE data. I conclude by summarizing the current state of knowledge and what evolutionary actors best explain the data that we have now, and by looking forward to the most informative measurements that Gaia and other surveys can make.
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