دورية أكاديمية
Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way
| العنوان: | Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way |
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| المؤلفون: | Montalbán, J., Mackereth, J.T., Miglio, A., Vincenzo, F., Chiappini, C., Buldgen, Gaël, Mosser, B., Grötsch-Noels, Arlette, Scuflaire, Richard, Vrard, M., Willett, E., Davies, G.R., Hall, O.J., Bo Nielsen, M., Khan, S., Rendle, B.M., van Rossem, W.E., Ferguson, J.W., Chaplin, W.J. |
| المساهمون: | STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège |
| المصدر: | Nature Astronomy, 5 (7), 640 - 647 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Research, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences, Space science, astronomy & astrophysics, Physique, chimie, mathématiques & sciences de la terre, Aérospatiale, astronomie & astrophysique |
| الوصف: | The standard cosmological model predicts that galaxies are built through hierarchical assembly on cosmological timescales1,2. 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 23 and spectroscopic surveys4, the stellar remnants of such mergers have been identified5–7. 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 mission8. 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/Sausage5,6 around 10 billion years ago. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 article peer reviewed |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | urn:issn:2397-3366 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41550-021-01347-7 |
| URL الوصول: | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/296630 |
| حقوق: | open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsorb.296630 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ORBi |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41550-021-01347-7 |
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