Excavating the fossil record of spiral galaxies

Despite spiral galaxies being extremely common in our local neighbourhood, their formation, growth, and dynamics are not fully understood. However, the spatial variation in the properties of stellar populations contained within spiral galaxies are expected to bear the imprint of some of the past an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterken, Thomas
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60728/