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Unraveling the history of star formation in the galactic disk with Gaia
1999
Open Astronomy
In this paper we examine the star formation history inferred from the Hipparcos color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of field stars in the solar vicinity and check whether the whole galactic disk has formed stars in a similar fashion. We find that the properties of the CMD in question are very local and the underlying star formation history cannot hold for the whole disk. With the expected capability of Gaia we examine how far in space Gaia would be able to sample stars with the same precision of
doi:10.1515/astro-1999-0212
fatcat:z6zus2bujrakreidls477fbgei