Observational Constraints on Chemodynamical Models of the
Milky Way
,
Majewski, S. R., Phelps, R. & Rich, R. M. 1997, in ``The History of the
Milky Way and Its Satellite
System'', eds. A. Burkert, D. Hartmann & S. R. Majewski,
ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 112, (ASP: San Francisco), p. 1.
Abstract
A pot pourri of observational results on the Milky Way are reviewed, with
emphasis on several recent discoveries. Increasingly sophisticated Galactic
chemodynamical models will be needed to explain the observational picture of
the Milky Way that is unfolding.