Fashionably Late? Building Up The Milky Way's Inner Halo

Date

2009

Authors

Morrison, Heather
Helmi, Amina
Sun, Jiayang
Liu, Peng
Gu, Rongfang
Norris, John
Harding, Paul
Kinman, T
Kepley, Amanda
Freeman, Kenneth

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IOP Publishing

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Using a sample of 246 metal-poor stars (RR Lyraes, red giants, and red horizontal branch stars) which is remarkable for the accuracy of its six-dimensional kinematical data, we find, by examining the distribution of stellar orbital angular momenta, a new

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Keywords: Galaxy: evolution; Galaxy: formation; Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics Online-only material: color figure

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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