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Kinematic Evidence for an Old Stellar Halo in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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2003

Authors

Minniti, Dante
Borissova, Jura
Rejkuba, Marina
Alves, David R
Cook, Kem H
Freeman, Kenneth

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

The oldest and most metal-poor Milky Way stars form a kinematically hot halo, which motivates the two major formation scenarios for our galaxy: extended hierarchical accretion and rapid collapse. RR Lyrae stars are excellent tracers of old and metal-poor

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Keywords: Galaxies; Kinematics; Velocity; Velocity dispersion; Clouds; kinematics; solar system; article; astronomy; cosmos; kinematics; priority journal

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/86946

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ANU Research Publications

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Science

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Journal article

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10.1126/science.1088529

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2037-12-31

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