{
  "id": "astro-ph/9911382",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-11-19T17:02:41.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-11-19T17:02:41.000Z",
  "title": "The Age of the Galactic Disk",
  "authors": [
    "Giovanni Carraro"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 4 figure, invited review, in \"The chemical evolution of the Milky Way : Stars vs Clusters, Vulcano (Italy), 20-24 September 1999",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "I review different methods devised to derive the age of the Galactic Disk, namely the Radio-active Decay (RD), the Cool White Dwarf Luminosity Function (CWDLF), old opne clusters (OOC) and the Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD) of the stars in the solar vicinity. I argue that the disk is likely to be 8-10 Gyr old. Since the bulk of globulars has an age around 13 Gyr, the possibility emerges that the Galaxy experienced a minimum of Star Formation at the end of the halo/bulge formation. This minimum might reflect the time at which the Galaxy started to acquire material to form the disk inside-out.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-11-19T17:02:41.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "galactic disk",
      "cool white dwarf luminosity function",
      "old opne clusters",
      "color magnitude diagram",
      "star formation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "review article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1007/978-94-010-0938-6_34"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 520405,
      "adsabs": "2000ASSL..255..335C"
    }
  }
}