The chemical characterization of halo substructure in the Milky Way based on APOGEE

D Horta, RP Schiavon, JT Mackereth… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Galactic haloes in a Λ-CDM universe are predicted to host today a swarm of debris resulting
from cannibalized dwarf galaxies. The chemodynamical information recorded in their stellar …

Reconstructing the Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus Using Its Stars and Globular Clusters

G Limberg, SO Souza, A Pérez-Villegas… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine spectroscopic, photometric, and astrometric information from APOGEE data
release 17 and Gaia early data release 3 to perform a self-consistent characterization of …

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 …

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 …

A high fidelity Milky Way simulation with Kraken, Gaia-Enceladus, and Sequoia analogues: clues to their accretion histories

G García-Bethencourt, CB Brook… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Within a simulated Milky Way-like galaxy, we identify and analyse analogues of
the Gaia-Enceladus (GE), Kraken, and Sequoia mergers that each matches remarkably well …

Substructure in the stellar halo near the Sun-II. Characterisation of independent structures

T Ruiz-Lara, T Matsuno, SS Lövdal, A Helmi… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. In an accompanying paper, we present a data-driven method for clustering in
'integrals of motion'space and apply it to a large sample of nearby halo stars with 6D phase …

Peeking beneath the precision floor− II. Probing the chemo-dynamical histories of the potential globular cluster siblings, NGC 288 and NGC 362

S Monty, D Yong, D Massari… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The assembly history of the Milky Way (MW) is a rapidly evolving subject, with numerous
small accretion events and at least one major merger proposed in the MW's history. Accreted …

High-precision chemical abundances of Galactic building blocks-II. Revisiting the chemical distinctness of the Helmi streams

T Matsuno, E Dodd, HH Koppelman, A Helmi… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The Helmi streams are a kinematic substructure whose progenitor is likely a dwarf
galaxy. Although 20 years have passed since their discovery, it is still unclear whether their …

A Walk on the Retrograde Side (WRS) project-I. Tidying-up the retrograde halo with high-resolution spectroscopy

E Ceccarelli, D Massari, A Mucciarelli… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Relics of ancient accretion events experienced by the Milky Way are predominantly located
within the stellar halo of our Galaxy. However, debris from different objects display …

3D non-local thermodynamic equilibrium magnesium abundances reveal a distinct halo population

T Matsuno, AM Amarsi, M Carlos, PE Nissen - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Magnesium is one of the most important elements in stellar physics as an electron donor; in
Galactic archaeology, magnesium serves to distinguish different stellar populations …