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Caption: Fig. 4.
Star formation history of the four components of the Galaxy assuming three different mean ages (called "Young," "Average," and "Old" in Table 2) and two different SFR functions for the thin disk and bulge (the "Exponential" and the "Sandage" function, eqs. [8] and [9], respectively).
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