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The Poor Old Heart of the Milky Way [PDF]

open access: yesAstrophysical Journal, 2022
Our Milky Way should host an ancient, metal-poor, and centrally concentrated stellar population, which reflects the star formation and enrichment in the few most massive progenitors that coalesced at high redshift to form the proto-Galaxy.
H. Rix   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cosmic Distances Calibrated to 1% Precision with Gaia EDR3 Parallaxes and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of 75 Milky Way Cepheids Confirm Tension with ΛCDM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We present an expanded sample of 75 Milky Way Cepheids with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry and Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, which we use to recalibrate the extragalactic distance ladder and refine the determination of the Hubble constant.
A. Riess   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Metal-weak Milky Way Stellar Disk Hidden in the Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus Debris: The APOGEE DR17 View

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg–Mn–Al–Fe plane with elemental abundances ...
Sofia Feltzing, Diane Feuillet
doaj   +1 more source

Chemodynamical Analysis of Metal-rich High-eccentricity Stars in the Milky Way's Disk

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We present a chemodynamical analysis of 11,562 metal-rich, high-eccentricity halo-like main-sequence stars, which have been referred to as the Splash or Splashed Disk, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...
Ayeon Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Searching for Milky Way twins: Radial abundance distribution as a strict criterion [PDF]

open access: yesA&A 676, A57 (2023), 2023
We search for Milky Way-like galaxies among a sample of approximately 500 galaxies. The characteristics we considered of the candidate galaxies are the following: stellar mass M_star, optical radius R_25, rotation velocity V_rot, central oxygen abundance (O/H)_0, and abundance at the optical radius (O/H)_R25.
arxiv   +1 more source

The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan-Chenab stream [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
It has recently been shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a substantial effect on the Milky Way’s stellar halo and stellar streams. Here, we explore how deformations of the Milky Way and LMC’s dark matter haloes affect stellar streams, and ...
Sophia Lilleengen   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey [PDF]

open access: yesAstrophysical Journal, 2021
Several lines of evidence suggest that the Milky Way underwent a major merger at z ∼ 2 with the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE) galaxy. Here we use H3 Survey data to argue that GSE entered the Galaxy on a retrograde orbit based on a population of highly ...
R. Naidu   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Blueprint for the Milky Way’s Stellar Populations. IV. A String of Pearls—the Galactic Starburst Sequence

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
We continue our series of papers on phase-space distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on photometrically derived metallicities and Gaia astrometry, with a focus on the halo−disk interface in the local volume.
Deokkeun An   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinematic-chemical Analysis and Time Tagging for the Diagonal Ridge Structure of the Galactic Outer Disk with LAMOST Red-giant Branch Stars

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal, 2023
We investigate the kinematic-chemical distribution of red-giant branch stars from the LAMOST survey crossed matched with Gaia DR2 proper motions, and present time tagging for the well-known ridge structures (diagonal distributions for V _R in the R , V ...
Peng Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We review progress over the past decade in observations of large-scale star formation, with a focus on the interface between extragalactic and Galactic studies.
R. Kennicutt, N. Evans
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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