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most citedThe merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way's inner stellar halo and thick disk

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astro-ph.GA2018★ 137 cited

Characterization and history of the Helmi streams with Gaia DR2

Helmer H. Koppelman, Amina Helmi, Davide Massari +2

The halo of the Milky Way has long been hypothesized to harbour significant amounts of merger debris. This view has been supported over more than a decade by wide-field photometric…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 77 cited

The Pristine Survey IV: Approaching the Galactic metallicity floor with the discovery of an ultra metal-poor star

Else Starkenburg, David S. Aguado, Piercarlo Bonifacio +22

The early Universe presented a star formation environment that was almost devoid of heavy elements. The lowest metallicity stars thus provide a unique window into the earliest Gala…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 1.2k cited

The merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way's inner stellar halo and thick disk

Amina Helmi, Carine Babusiaux, Helmer H. Koppelman +3

The assembly process of our Galaxy can be retrieved using the motions and chemistry of individual stars. Chemo-dynamical studies of the nearby halo have long hinted at the presence…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 2 cited

Scratching the surface with TGAS and RAVE: disk moving groups in the Solar neighborhood

Helmer H. Koppelman, Titania Virginiflosia, Lorenzo Posti +2

There is long tradition extending more than a century on the identification of moving groups in the Solar neighborhood. However, with the advent of large kinematic surveys, and esp…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 181 cited

One large blob and many streams frosting the nearby stellar halo in Gaia DR2

Helmer H. Koppelman, Amina Helmi, Jovan Veljanoski

We explore the phase-space structure of nearby halo stars identified kinematically from Gaia DR2 data. We focus on their distribution in velocity and in "integrals of motion" space…