Why the Milky Way’s bulge is not only a bar formed from a cold thin disk

Mapping a stellar disk into a boxy bulge: The outside-in part of the Milky Way bulge formation

(2014) P. Di Matteo et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The GIRAFFE Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS)

(2014) M. Zoccali et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

TheGaia-ESO Survey: metallicity and kinematic trends in the Milky Way bulge

(2014) A. Rojas-Arriagada et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE MILKY WAY AS A HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXY: THE IMPORTANCE OF THICK DISK FORMATION IN GALAXIES

(2014) Matthew D. Lehnert et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

THE DOMINANT EPOCH OF STAR FORMATION IN THE MILKY WAY FORMED THE THICK DISK

(2014) Owain N. Snaith et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

N-body simulation insights into the X-shaped bulge of the Milky Way: kinematics and distance to the Galactic Centre

(2014) Esko Gardner et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Signatures of radial migration in barred galaxies: Azimuthal variations in the metallicity distribution of old stars

(2013) P. Di Matteo et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

3D kinematics through the X-shaped Milky Way bulge

(2013) S. Vásquez et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS

(2013) O. A. Gonzalez et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The age structure of stellar populations in the solar vicinity

(2013) Misha Haywood et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE LONG LIVES OF GIANT CLUMPS AND THE BIRTH OF OUTFLOWS IN GAS-RICH GALAXIES AT HIGH REDSHIFT

(2013) Frédéric Bournaud et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE ASSEMBLY OF MILKY-WAY-LIKE GALAXIES SINCEz∼ 2.5

(2013) Pieter G. van Dokkum et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

METALLICITY GRADIENTS THROUGH DISK INSTABILITY: A SIMPLE MODEL FOR THE MILKY WAY'S BOXY BULGE

(2013) Inma Martinez-Valpuesta et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Secular evolution and cylindrical rotation in boxy/peanut bulges: impact of initially rotating classical bulges

(2013) Kanak Saha et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

ARGOS – IV. The kinematics of the Milky Way bulge

(2013) M. Ness et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

ARGOS – III. Stellar populations in the Galactic bulge of the Milky Way

(2013) M. Ness et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE BULGE RADIAL VELOCITY ASSAY (BRAVA). II. COMPLETE SAMPLE AND DATA RELEASE

(2012) Andrea Kunder et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Constraining the structure and formation of the Galactic bulge from a field in its outskirts

(2012) S. Uttenthaler et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars

(2012) T. Bensby et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF MONO-ABUNDANCE SUB-POPULATIONS OF THE MILKY WAY DISK

(2012) Jo Bovy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE ORIGIN OF THE SPLIT RED CLUMP IN THE GALACTIC BULGE OF THE MILKY WAY

(2012) M. Ness et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The metallicity distribution of bulge clump giants in Baade’s window

(2011) V. Hill et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Alpha element abundances and gradients in the Milky Way bulge from FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra of 650 K giants

(2011) O. A. Gonzalez et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

ORIGIN OF CHEMICAL AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE GALACTIC THICK DISK

(2011) Kenji Bekki et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

UNIFYING A BOXY BULGE AND PLANAR LONG BAR IN THE MILKY WAY

(2011) Inma Martinez-Valpuesta et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A FIRST CONSTRAINT ON THE THICK DISK SCALE LENGTH: DIFFERENTIAL RADIAL ABUNDANCES IN K GIANTS AT GALACTOCENTRIC RADII 4, 8, AND 12 kpc

(2011) T. Bensby et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Local (thick-disc) white dwarfs and the Galactic mass budget

(2011) K. Fuhrmann et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The ATLAS3D project - I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

(2011) Michele Cappellari et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Chemical similarities between Galactic bulge and local thick disk red giants: O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, and Ti

(2010) A. Alves-Brito et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Two distinct halo populations in the solar neighborhood

(2010) P. E. Nissen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Insights on the Milky Way bulge formation from the correlations between kinematics and metallicity

(2010) C. Babusiaux et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

OUR MILKY WAY AS A PURE-DISK GALAXY—A CHALLENGE FOR GALAXY FORMATION

(2010) Juntai Shen et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

THE EVOLUTION OF OXYGEN AND MAGNESIUM IN THE BULGE AND DISK OF THE MILKY WAY

(2008) A. McWilliam et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

The metal content of bulge field stars from FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra

(2008) M. Zoccali et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Chemical similarities between Galactic bulge and local thick disk red giant stars

(2008) J. Meléndez et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. I. Stellar Number Density Distribution

(2008) Mario Jurić et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Bulge Formation by the Coalescence of Giant Clumps in Primordial Disk Galaxies

(2008) Bruce G. Elmegreen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Searching for the metal-weak thick disc in the solar neighbourhood

(2008) Bacham E. Reddy et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY