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A new stellar chemo-kinematic relation reveals the merger history of the milky way disk

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Minchev, I
Chiappini, C
Martig, M
Steinmetz, M.
de Jong, R. S.
Boeche, C
Scannapieco, C
Zwitter, T
Wyse, Rosemary F G
Freeman, Kenneth

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

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The velocity dispersions of stars near the Sun are known to increase with stellar age, but age can be difficult to determine, so a proxy like the abundance of α elements (e.g., Mg) with respect to iron, [α/Fe], is used. Here we report an unexpected beha

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Astrophysical Journal Letters

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