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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"hypervelocity stars"”.
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Fast Stars in the Milky Way
I present a comprehensive investigation of fast stars in the Milky Way, from brisk disc stars to stars escaping the Galaxy. My thesis is that fast stars are the smoking guns of extreme stellar collisions and explosions, and so can act as an intermediary to studying these theoretically-unconquered …
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Models of the Galaxy and the massive spectroscopic stellar survey RAVE
… survey that observed almost half a million stars in the Galaxy. In a first study we use three different models of the Galaxy to generate synthetic stellar surveys that can be directly compared to the RAVE data. To do this we evaluate the RAVE selection function to great detail. Among the …