Thin disk

Edge on view of the Milky Way with several structures indicated (not to scale). The Thin disk is shown in green.

The thin disk is a structural component of spiral and S0-type galaxies, composed of stars, gas and dust. It is the main non-centre (e.g. galactic bulge) density, of such matter. That of the Milky Way is thought to have a scale height of around 300–400 parsecs (980–1,300 ly) in the vertical axis perpendicular to the disk,[1] and a scale length of around 2.5–4.5 kiloparsecs (8.2–14.7 kly) in the horizontal axis, in the direction of the radius.[2] For comparison, the Sun is 8 kiloparsecs (26 kly) out from the center. The thin disk contributes about 85% of the stars in the Galactic plane[3] and 95% of the total disk stars.[2] It can be set apart from the thick disk of a galaxy since the latter is composed of older population stars created at an earlier stage of the galaxy formation and thus has fewer heavy elements. Stars in the thin disk, on the other hand, are created as a result of gas accretion at the later stages of a galaxy formation and are on average more metal-rich.[4]

The thin disk contains stars with a wide range of ages and may be divided into a series of sub-populations of increasing age. Notwithstanding, it is considered to be considerably younger than the thick disk.[5]

Based upon the emerging science of nucleocosmochronology, the Galactic thin disk of the Milky Way is estimated to have been formed 8.8 ± 1.7 billion years ago.[6] It may have collided with a smaller satellite galaxy, causing the stars in the thin disk to be shaken up and creating the thick disk,[7] while the gas would have settled into the galactic plane and reformed the thin disk.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie, 2007, "An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics" Second Edition
  2. ^ a b c Sparke, Linda S.; Gallagher, John S. III (2007). Galaxies in the universe : an introduction (2. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0521671866.
  3. ^ Carlos Allende Prieto (Nov 2009). "The Stellar Population of the Thin Disk". Proceedings IAU Symposium. 265 (265): 304–312. arXiv:0911.3598. Bibcode:2010IAUS..265..304A. doi:10.1017/S1743921310000785. S2CID 118520855.
  4. ^ "OpenStax CNX". cnx.org. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  5. ^ Bensby & Feltzing, "The Galactic thin and thick discs in the context of galaxy formation", arXiv:0908.3807
  6. ^ Eduardo F. del Peloso a1a, Licio da Silva a1, Gustavo F. Porto de Mello and Lilia I. Arany-Prado (2005), "The age of the Galactic thin disk from Th/Eu nucleocosmochronology: extended sample" (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (2005), 1: 485-486 Cambridge University Press)
  7. ^ Kasparova, A. (2016). "The Diversity of Thick Galactic Discs". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 460 (1): 89–93. arXiv:1604.07624. Bibcode:2016MNRAS.460L..89K. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slw083.

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