The assembly of the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies

作     者：Martin C. Smith Sakurako Okamoto Hai-Bo Yuan Xiao-Wei Liu 

作者机构：Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics Peking University Beijing 100871 China National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 China LAMOST Fellow Department of Astronomy Peking University Beijing 100871 China 

出 版 物：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第12卷第8期

页      面：1021-1043页

核心收录：

学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China the Peking University One Hundred Talent Fund (985) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11173002 and11010022) 

主　　题：Galaxy: structure    Galaxy: evolution    Galaxy: kinematics and dy namics    Galaxy: disk    galaxies: dwarf   surveys 

摘      要：In recent years it has become clear that the Milky Way is an important test- ing ground for theories of galaxy formation. Much of this growth has been driven by large surveys, both photometric and spectroscopic, which are producing vast and rich catalogs of data. Through the analysis of these data sets we can gain new and detailed insights into the physical processes which shaped the Milky Way＇s evolution. This review will discuss a number of these developments, first focusing on the disk of the Milky Way, and then looking at its satellite population. The importance of surveys has not gone unnoticed by the Chinese astronomy community and in the final section we discuss a number of Chinese projects that are set to play a key role in the development of this field.