Table · dataset · 2023
MW chronologically dating early assembly
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The standard cosmological model predicts that galaxies are built through hierarchical assembly on cosmological timescales.
Description
The Milky Way, like other disk galaxies, underwent violent mergers and accretion of small satellite galaxies in its early history. Owing to Gaia Data Release 2 and spectroscopic surveys, the stellar remnants of such mergers have been identified.
The chronological dating of such events is crucial to uncover the formation and evolution of the Galaxy at high redshift, but it has so far been challenging due to difficulties in obtaining precise ages for these oldest stars. Here we combine asteroseismology the study of stellar oscillations with kinematics and chemical abundances to estimate precise stellar ages (~11%) for a sample of stars observed by the Kepler space mission.
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Crucially, this sample includes not only some of the oldest stars that were formed inside the Galaxy but also stars formed externally and subsequently accreted onto the Milky Way. Leveraging this resolution in age, we provide compelling evidence in favour of models in which the Galaxy had already formed a substantial population of its stars (which now reside mainly in its thick disk) before the infall of the satellite galaxy Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage around 10 billion years ago.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/other/NatAs/5.640 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 2021NatAs...5..640M ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021NatAs...5..640M ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/other/natas/5.640 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/other/natas/5.640 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
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