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A Galactic Self-Portrait: Density Structure and Integrated Properties of the Milky Way Disk

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Pith's one-line read The paper derives the Milky Way disk's density structure by fitting a six-parameter axisymmetric model to 203,197 selection-corrected red giants, yielding $M_\mathrm{disk}=5.27\times10^{10}\,M_\odot$, a scale length of 2.37 kpc, and color…

desk verdict A careful, useful paper whose headline mass and scale-length numbers rest on an untested axisymmetric disk-only model fit to the inner kiloparsecs where the bulge/bar dominates. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.17629 v2 pith:PB4FFT2T submitted 2025-07-23 astro-ph.GA

Julie Imig , Jon A. Holtzman , Gail Zasowski , Jianhui Lian , Nicholas F. Boardman , Alexander Stone-Martinez , J. Ted Mackereth , Moire K. M. Prescott
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Rachael L. Beaton Timothy C. Beers Dmitry Bizyaev Michael R. Blanton Katia Cunha José G. Fernández-Trincado Catherine E. Fielder Sten Hasselquist Christian R. Hayes Misha Haywood Henrik Jönsson Richard R. Lane Steven R. Majewski Szabolcs Mészáros Ivan Minchev David L. Nidever Christian Nitschelm Jennifer Sobeck
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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper tries to establish a complete, population-resolved census of the Milky Way's stellar disk. The authors bin 203,197 red giant stars from the APOGEE survey into mono-age, mono-abundance populations by metallicity (0.1 dex bins), age (0.1 dex in log age), and $\alpha$-element abundance, then fit a six-parameter axisymmetric density model to each bin after correcting for the survey's field-by-field selection function and dust. From the summed fits they derive a total disk stellar mass of $5.27\times10^{10}\,M_\odot$, a mass-weighted scale length of 2.37 kpc, and an integrated $(g-r)$ color of 0.72 at the present day. The value of this result is that it lets the Milky Way be placed on galaxy color-mass and scaling relations using its own resolved stellar populations rather than analog galaxies, and it shows that the Milky Way has been a red spiral in the green valley for only the last ~3 Gyr.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the six-parameter axisymmetric number-density model $\nu_*(R,Z) = \nu_\odot\,\Sigma(R)\,\xi(R,Z)$, where the radial profile $\Sigma(R)$ is a broken exponential (inner scale length $h_{R,\mathrm{in}}$, outer scale length $h_{R,\mathrm{out}}$, break radius $R_{\mathrm{break}}$) and the vertical profile $\xi(R,Z)$ is a single exponential with linearly flaring scale height $h_Z(R) = h_{Z,\odot} + A_{\mathrm{flare}}(R-R_\odot)$. The machinery that makes the model inferential is the inhomogeneous Poisson likelihood with effective selection function that this paper adopts from its references: the expected number of observed stars in an APOGEE field is the density model integrated along the line of sight and multiplied by a selection function that combines the survey's targeting fraction, PARSEC isochrone weights, a Kroupa IMF, and a three-dimensional dust map. Each mono-age, mono-abundance population is fit separately with MCMC, and the normalization at the Sun is fixed by comparing corrected star counts to the effective survey volume. This converts RGB star counts into total stellar masses and, with MaStar simple-stellar-population spectra, into integrated spectra and colors.

What would settle it

Obtain independent ages for high-alpha stars with [M/H] <= -0.7 (for example, from asteroseismic masses or main-sequence turnoff photometry in star clusters) and compare their measured age distribution with the re-sampled distribution assumed in Section 2.3. A systematic offset larger than the stated ~0.15 dex age uncertainty would shift the high-alpha density profiles, the total star formation history, and the claimed green-valley timing.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Working population-by-population, the paper finds that the low-$\alpha$ disk and the high-$\alpha$ disk have different geometric personalities. Low-$\alpha$ populations are the thin, radially extended disk: their scale lengths increase with age and metallicity, their radial profiles are best fit by a broken exponential whose break radius moves inward from ~12 kpc to ~6 kpc as metallicity increases, and their scale height at the Sun is ~0.25 kpc with modest flaring. High-$\alpha$ populations are the thick, centrally concentrated disk: scale heights near 0.75 kpc, shorter scale lengths, profiles well approximated by a single exponential, and the strongest flaring in the oldest metal-poor bins. Summing the selection-function-corrected fits yields a total initial disk mass of $5.27^{+0.2}_{-1.5}\times10^{10}\,M_\odot$, a local surface density of $35.4\,M_\odot\,\mathrm{pc}^{-2}$, a mass-weighted scale length of $2.37\pm0.2$ kpc that grows to $2.83\pm0.2$ kpc when light-weighted, and a present-day integrated $(g-r)$ color of $0.72\pm0.02$, which classifies the Milky Way as a red spiral that has occupied the green valley for only the last ~3 Gyr.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing assumption is that the roughly ten percent of high-alpha stars with metallicity [M/H] <= -0.7, which lack reliable ages from the distmass catalog, can be re-sampled to follow the age distribution of high-alpha stars with -0.4 < [M/H] < -0.7; if those metal-poor stars are actually younger or older, the age-dependent structure, star formation history, and integrated color evolution would all shift.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The Milky Way's mass-weighted disk scale length of 2.37 kpc is shorter than most external spiral analogs, and the light-weighted value of 2.83 kpc partially closes that gap, implying that part of the Milky Way's apparent compactness is a mass-versus-light measurement effect.
  • The two alpha populations overlapped in formation time but remain geometrically distinct today: the high-alpha disk dominates the inner Galaxy and truncates near the solar circle, while the low-alpha disk extends to larger radii.
  • The integrated $(g-r)$ color of 0.72 places the Milky Way among red spiral galaxies and implies that it has been in the green valley for only about the last 3 Gyr, having been bluer and in the blue cloud at earlier lookback times.
  • The star formation history peaks at 10-12.6 Gyr ago (driven by high-alpha stars) with a secondary low-alpha peak at 6-8 Gyr ago, consistent with a declining star formation rate and a gas-rich merger episode.
  • The strongest vertical flaring occurs in old, metal-poor high-alpha populations, favoring early merger-driven or inside-out assembly over radial-migration-suppressed flaring.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Not said in the paper: because the fitted model is axisymmetric, the ripples seen in the total surface density profile near the spiral-arm radii may be artifacts of the limited azimuthal APOGEE footprint; a non-axisymmetric model could separate true arm structure from the smooth disk.
  • Not said in the paper: the assumed age distribution for metal-poor high-alpha stars could be tested directly with asteroseismic samples or globular cluster ages, and such a test would either confirm or shift the star formation history and green-valley timing.
  • Not said in the paper: the integrated colors are computed with a fixed, non-evolving dust screen; since dust content evolves with time, the lookback-time colors should be treated as upper limits, as the paper itself notes.
  • Not said in the paper: applying the same SSP light weighting to simulated galaxies would quantify how much of the residual scale-length discrepancy with external galaxies is due to the mass-versus-light measurement difference rather than a genuine structural difference.
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Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. This paper fits a six-parameter, axisymmetric broken-exponential-plus-flaring density model to 203,197 APOGEE DR17 red giant stars, binned into mono-age, mono-metallicity, and low-/high-α populations, after applying a field-by-field APOGEE selection function with dust obscuration. From the fitted profiles the authors derive population-dependent scale lengths, scale heights, and flaring parameters, and then integrate over the disk to obtain a total initial disk stellar mass of 5.27e10 Msun, a mass-weighted global scale length of 2.37 kpc, and a present-day integrated (g-r) color of 0.72. The paper further constructs an integrated spectrum, spectral line indices, a star formation history, and a time-resolved color-mass track, concluding that the Milky Way is a red spiral galaxy that has been in the green valley for only the last ~3 Gyr.

Significance. If the central results hold, the paper provides a valuable, self-consistent census of the Milky Way disk's stellar populations: it updates the density-fitting methodology to DR17, publishes machine-readable structural parameters and code on GitHub/Zenodo, and produces one of the first estimates of the Milky Way's integrated optical color directly from its stellar populations rather than from analogs. The agreement with prior estimates of total disk mass and local surface density, and the comparison with MaNGA Milky Way analogs, are useful cross-checks. However, the headline integrated quantities rest on two assumptions that need quantitative testing: the purity of the pure-disk axisymmetric model in the newly sampled inner kpc, and the artificially assigned ages of metal-poor high-α stars. The paper also reports only MCMC statistical uncertainties, without a systematic error budget, so the central numbers are less secure than their quoted error bars suggest.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.3, Eq. (9)-(12) and §3.2, §4.3] The density model contains no bulge, bar, or spiral-arm term, yet the fit uses all 203,197 stars with R<=20 kpc, including the DR17 fields that newly sample R<3 kpc. In that region the Milky Way's stellar mass is dominated by the boxy/peanut bulge and bar, so the likelihood in Eq. (3) can only absorb the excess central counts by steepening and renormalizing the high-α disk profile. This directly affects the reported high-α scale length of 1.58 kpc, the high-α mass of 3.28e10 Msun (62% of the total), the total disk mass, the global R_d=2.37 kpc, and the unusually large f_Σ=53% in §4.3. The paper should either exclude the R<3 kpc fields in a robustness test, add a bulge/bar component, or otherwise demonstrate that the headline structural and mass results are insensitive to the missing central components.
  2. [§2.3] The age assignment for the ~10% of high-α stars with [M/H]<=-0.7 is load-bearing for the age-dependent trends, the star formation history, and the time-resolved color evolution. These stars lack reliable distmass ages and are re-sampled to follow the age distribution of high-α stars with -0.4<[M/H]<-0.7, under the premise that all high-α stars are uniformly old. If this premise is wrong, the reported age trends for the high-α population and the integrated color evolution would be biased. The authors should quantify the sensitivity of their conclusions to this assumption, for example by repeating the fits with the metal-poor high-α stars assigned uniformly old ages, omitted entirely, or assigned ages from an alternative catalog.
  3. [§3.4 and §4.3, Table 4] The quoted uncertainties are derived only from the spread in the MCMC chains, so they do not include systematic errors from the choice of dust map, the selection-function construction, the -0.05 dex offset in the α separation boundary, the distmass age systematics, or the lower metallicity cutoff at [M/H]=-0.7. To support headline claims such as M_*=5.27(+0.2,-1.5)e10 Msun and (g-r)=0.72±0.02, the paper needs a systematic error budget or a set of explicit variation tests; otherwise the reported precision overstates what is known.
minor comments (4)
  1. [§2.4, Eq. (1)] The -0.05 dex offset is introduced to convert from [Mg/Fe] to [α/M], but the magnitude of the offset is not justified; a brief sensitivity test or a reference for the typical [Mg/Fe]-[α/M] difference would strengthen the population separation.
  2. [Table A1] Several reported parameters have extremely broad and asymmetric 1σ uncertainties (e.g., h_R,in values of 0.98(+46.4,-53.3) kpc), indicating that some population bins are essentially unconstrained; the text should explicitly identify these bins and avoid over-interpreting trends that rely on them.
  3. [§5.2] The dust-screen approximation that half the light is reddened with A_V=1 and half is unreddened is explicitly oversimplified, but it is used in the present-day spectrum and color comparisons; the conclusions should state how sensitive (g-r)=0.72 is to this reddening prescription.
  4. [§5.1 and Conclusions] The low-α scale length of 2.74±0.2 kpc appears only in the conclusions bullet list; the corresponding value should be reported and defined in §5.1 where the mass-weighted and light-weighted global scale lengths are introduced.

Circularity Check

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Central density, mass, and color results are genuinely fitted from star counts; only the metal-poor high-α age assignment introduces a modest, localized circularity.

  1. self definitional [Section 2.3, Sample Refinement (age assignment for high-α, [M/H]≤−0.7); used in Section 5.5 star formation history.]
    "For the high-α, metal-poor stars, we therefore assign an age estimate under the assumption that they follow the same age distribution as the rest of the high-α stars in the sample. ... We adopt an assumed age estimate for these stars by sampling all high-α stars in the −0.4<[M/H]<−0.7 range and use their ages from distmass to determine the target age distribution. The metal-poor ([M/H]≤−0.7) stars are then assigned an assumed age by re-sampling them to follow the target age distribution."

    Roughly 10% of the high-α population receives ages that are forced, by re-sampling, to reproduce the age distribution of the −0.4<[M/H]<−0.7 high-α stars. Those assumed ages are then included in the mono-age bins whose summed masses produce the derived high-α star formation history and the statement that the high-α population formed early in an efficient burst. The premise 'high-α stars are uniformly old independent of metallicity' is therefore partly encoded as an input before it reappears as an age-dependent output for that component. The paper explicitly labels this as an assumption, and the effect is confined to the metal-poor tail, so the circularity burden is modest; the structural parameters, total mass, and integrated color do not reduce to this step.

full rationale

The paper's main derivation is self-contained rather than circular. The six-parameter density models are fitted by MCMC to selection-function-corrected APOGEE star counts through Equations 2–4, 9, 11, and 12; the normalization ν⊙ is set by the observed counts via Equation 10; and the total mass, mass-weighted scale length, integrated spectrum, and (g−r) color are forward-computed from those fitted stellar populations rather than being quantities used as inputs. Comparisons to external estimates (Bovy & Rix 2013; Licquia & Newman 2016; Fielder et al. 2021) reinforce that the headline numbers are not self-referential. The one genuine circular element is localized to Section 2.3: for the ~10% of high-α stars with [M/H]≤−0.7, ages are assigned by re-sampling to match the age distribution of the −0.4<[M/H]<−0.7 high-α stars, and those assigned ages subsequently contribute to the age-dependent high-α results. The paper openly identifies this as an assumption, and the central claims do not reduce to it, so the overall circularity score is low.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The analysis is a fitting exercise: it assumes a parametric density model and derives mass and color from the fitted parameters. The hand-chosen inputs are the alpha-separation offset and the dust screen; the density parameters are the measured outputs. The largest uncertainties are not free parameters but assumptions in the age catalog and selection function.

free parameters (3)
  • Low/high-alpha separation offset = -0.05 dex
    Added by hand to the Patil et al. (2023) equation (Eq. 1) to convert from [Mg/Fe] to [alpha/M], changing the boundary between the two alpha populations.
  • Dust screen extinction for integrated colors = A_V = 1 applied to 50% of the light
    The simple reddening model in Section 5.2 reddens half the light with A_V=1; this amplitude is arbitrary and may not represent the true dust geometry.
  • Density profile parameters = Table A1: hR,in, hR,out, Rbreak, hZsun, Aflare per population
    Five structural parameters per mono-age, mono-abundance population are fitted to the selection-function-corrected star counts; they are the central outputs rather than hidden assumptions, but they are calibrated to this dataset.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The disk density is axisymmetric, with no bar, spiral arms, or bulge (Eq. 9-12)
    The model depends only on R and Z; the paper acknowledges this and notes that spiral arms may appear as ring-like structures in the total profile (Section 5.1).
  • ad hoc to paper Metal-poor high-alpha stars follow the same age distribution as high-alpha stars with -0.4<[M/H]<-0.7
    In Section 2.3, stars with [M/H]<=-0.7 are re-sampled to match this target age distribution because they lack reliable age estimates; this assumption is motivated by chemical evolution models but is not directly tested.
  • domain assumption The effective selection function can be computed from PARSEC isochrones, a Kroupa IMF, and the Combined 2019 dust map
    Equation 6 and Section 3.2 adopt these ingredients from prior literature to compute the fraction of stars observed as a function of field and distance.
  • domain assumption distmass age estimates are reliable within the stated uncertainties for the fitted giants
    The ages from Stone-Martinez et al. (2024) are used to bin stars; they are derived from a neural network trained on asteroseismic masses, with typical uncertainty 0.15 dex in log age, larger than the 0.1 dex bin size.
  • domain assumption A Kroupa IMF and simple stellar population models describe the stellar content of each MAAP
    Used to convert RGB number counts to masses and to compute integrated spectra; standard but unverified against the specific Milky Way populations.

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Pith. "Pith review of A Galactic Self-Portrait: Density Structure and Integrated Properties of the Milky Way Disk." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/PB4FFT2T

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: A Galactic Self-Portrait: Density Structure and Integrated Properties of the Milky Way Disk},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2507.17629}
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abstract

The evolution history of the Milky Way disk is imprinted in the ages, positions, and chemical compositions of individual stars. In this study, we derive the intrinsic density distribution of different stellar populations using the final data release of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey. A total of 203,197 red giant branch stars are used to sort the stellar disk ($R \leq 20$ kpc) into sub-populations of metallicity ($\Delta$[M/H]$= 0.1$ dex), age ($\Delta \log(\frac{\textrm{age}}{\textrm{yr}})= 0.1$), and $\alpha$-element abundances ([$\alpha$/M]). We fit the present-day structural parameters and density distribution of each stellar sub-population after correcting for the survey selection function. The low-$\alpha$ disk is characterized by longer scale lengths and shorter scale heights, and is best fit by a broken exponential radial profile for each population. The high-$\alpha$ disk is characterized by shorter scale lengths and larger scale heights, and is generally well-approximated by a single exponential radial profile. These results are applied to produce new estimates of the integrated properties of the Milky Way from early times to the present day. We measure the total stellar mass of the disk to be $5.27^{+0.2}_{-1.5} \times 10^{10}$ M$_\odot$ and the average mass-weighted scale length is $R_{d} = 2.37 \pm 0.2$ kpc. The Milky Way's present-day color of $(g-r) = 0.72 \pm 0.02$ is consistent with the classification of a red spiral galaxy, although it has only been in the "green valley" region of the galaxy color-mass diagram for the last $\sim 3$ Gyr.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Summary of our red giant branch stellar sample from APOGEE. Left: The Teff -logg distribution of our sample (with point color corresponding to metallicity) compared to the entire APOGEE catalog (in grayscale, density on the diagram). Right: The spatial distribution of our RGB sample, displayed as a face-on view of the Galactic disk (top), and an edge-on view (bottom). The plus (+) marks the location of the Galactic … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. The metallicity ([M/H]) and alpha-element abun￾dance ([α/M]) distribution covered by our sample, showing the designated separation between low-α and high-α samples defined in Equation 1. The vertical line at [M/H]= −0.7 dex marks the lower metallicity limit of the distmass stellar age estimates. than the typical ASPCAP uncertainty in [M/H], which is generally on the order of 0.01 dex. In stellar age, we define 12 bi… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The number of stars in our sample for each stellar population bin, separated by the low-α (blue; left) and high-α (red; right) samples and different bins in stellar age (x-axis) and metallicity (y-axis). The number of stars in each population is printed in the corresponding bin and represented by color intensity. The dark gray outline highlights bins with more than 100 stars, which is the limit for our parameter fit… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The APOGEE selection functions. Top: The raw Selection Function, reflecting the targeting strategies of APOGEE, displayed as the selection fraction (color) based on the APOGEE field position on the sky. Bottom: The Effective Selection Function, reflecting APOGEE’s samp…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: A visual example of the stellar number density model described in Section 3.3, which we use to fit each of the stellar populations in the sample. Large Left Panel: the total number density profile (Equation 9) in the edge-on view x − z plane. The total number density p…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Example corner plot showing the MCMC results for the low-α stellar population bin centered at [M/H] = 0.15 and log(age) = 9.6. the Sun [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Radial profile parameters best-fit results, includ￾ing inner scale length (hr,in; top), outer scale length (hr,out; middle), and break radius (rbreak; bottom). Each row is set up with the same grid layout as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Quantifying the “broadening metric” with the same grid setup as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png]
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Radial density profiles of the stellar populations in the Milky Way disk, split by low-α (top) and high-α (bottom), stellar ages (panels, increasing left to right), and metallicity (line color). All profiles have been normalized to ν∗ = 1 at R = 0 for easier comparison…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Vertical parameters best-fit results for our den￾sity profile, the scale height at the Solar radius hz,⊙ and the flaring parameter Af lare, or the slope of hz as a func￾tion of R. Each row is set up with the same grid layout as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Vertical density profiles showing scale height hz as a function of radius of the stellar populations in the Milky Way disk, split by low-α (top) and high-α (bottom), stellar ages (panels, increasing left to right), and metallicity (line color). The uncertainties on ea…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: The mass parameter from our density profile, the number density at the Solar Neighborhood (ν⊙; top), and the subsequent calculation of surface mass density (Σodot, middle) and total mass contribution (M∗; bottom) of each stellar population calculated by integrating th…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Total surface mass density profile of the Milky Way disk, in a mass-weighted (top) and light-weighted (bot￾tom) profile. The high-α populations (red line), low-α pop￾ulations (blue line), and total profile (black line) are plotted for each. For each, the solid line de…
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: The integrated spectrum of the stellar populations of the Milky Way and its subsequent evolution over time, calculated from our mass estimates paired with the MaStar Simple Stellar Population spectra (Maraston et al. 2020) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_14.png]
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Top: Comparison between the present-day integrated spectrum of the Milky Way (black line), the median spectrum from the MW analog sample in MaNGA (Boardman et al. 2020, dark gray line, with shaded regions denoting ±1σ and ±2σ spread among the spectra) and estimates of…
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: The six best Milky Way Analog galaxies in MaNGA determined by the similarity of their integrated spectra compared to the Milky Way spectrum in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_16.png]
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Spectral Line Indices Mgb and <Fe>=(Fe5270 + Fe5335)/2 for the present-day Milky Way spectrum (star point), the MWA sample (large circles; Boardman et al. 2020), and the entire MaNGA sample (gray dots; West￾fall et al. 2019). Reference values from the SSP models of Th…
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Galaxy color-mass diagram. The Milky Way’s (g − r) color and stellar mass M∗ are plotted as the star￾shaped points, with their evolution over time (point color). Previous studies that have estimated the Milky Way’s opti￾cal colors through observing Milky Way Analog ga…
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Top: The star formation history of the Milky Way, for the high-α population (red line), low-α population (blue line), and total population (black line) calculated from our total mass results and summed over all stellar metallici￾ties. Bottom: The cumulative star forma…
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: An animation showing the time evolution of the density structure of the Milky Way disk over time. Left: The stellar number density distribution as a face-on view (X − Y plane; top) and edge on view (R − Z plane, bottom) of the disk. The location of the Sun is marked b…

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