Galactic Archaeology with Gaia

AJ Deason, V Belokurov - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Gaia mission has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way and its satellite citizens. The
field of Galactic Archaeology has been piecing together the formation and evolution of the …

StarHorse results for spectroscopic surveys and Gaia DR3: Chrono-chemical populations in the solar vicinity, the genuine thick disk, and young alpha-rich stars

ABA Queiroz, F Anders, C Chiappini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The Gaia mission has provided an invaluable wealth of astrometric data for more than a
billion stars in our Galaxy. The synergy between Gaia astrometry, photometry, and …

In-situ versus accreted Milky Way globular clusters: a new classification method and implications for cluster formation

V Belokurov, A Kravtsov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new scheme for the classification of the in-situ and accreted globular clusters
(GCs). The scheme uses total energy E and z-component of the orbital angular momentum …

Gastro Library. I. The Simulated Chemodynamical Properties of Several Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus-like Stellar Halos

JAS Amarante, VP Debattista, LBE Silva… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Milky Way (MW) stellar halo contains relics of ancient mergers that tell the story
of our galaxy's formation. Some of them are identified due to their similarity in energy …

The stellar mass of the Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus accretion remnant

JMM Lane, J Bovy, JT Mackereth - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GS/E) structure is an accretion remnant that
comprises a large fraction of the Milky Way's stellar halo. We study GS/E using high-purity …

VINTERGATAN-GM: The cosmological imprints of early mergers on Milky-Way-mass galaxies

MP Rey, O Agertz, TK Starkenburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new suite of cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamical (spatial resolution)
simulations of Milky-Way mass galaxies to study how a varying mass ratio for a Gaia …

The Observable Properties of Galaxy Accretion Events in Milky Way–like Galaxies in the FIRE-2 Cosmological Simulations

D Horta, EC Cunningham, RE Sanderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In the Λ-Cold Dark Matter model of the universe, galaxies form in part through
accreting satellite systems. Previous works have built an understanding of the signatures of …

Exploring the diversity and similarity of radially anisotropic Milky Way-like stellar haloes: implications for disrupted dwarf galaxy searches

MDA Orkney, CFP Laporte, RJJ Grand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the properties of mergers comparable to the Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus
(GSE) using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies. The …

Distant Echoes of the Milky Way's Last Major Merger

V Chandra, RP Naidu, C Conroy, AP Ji… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The majority of the Milky Way's stellar halo consists of debris from our galaxy's last major
merger, the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus (GSE). In the past few years, stars from the GSE have …

Abundances of iron-peak elements in accreted and in situ born Galactic halo stars

PE Nissen, AM Amarsi, Á Skúladóttir… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Studies of the element abundances and kinematics of stars belonging to the
Galactic halo have revealed the existence of two distinct populations: accreted stars with a …