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Constraints on Galactic Infall from Studies of Chemical Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

M. Tosi*
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico Via Zamboni 33 I-40100 Bologna, Italy

Abstract

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It is shown that, in order to reproduce the observational properties of our Galaxy, models of galactic chemical evolution require a conspicuous amount of gas falling on the disk with very slow time decay. The constraints on the characteristics of this gas derived from the models are presented.

Type
I. The Disk-Halo Interface in Our Galaxy
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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