4 papers
Chemical decoding of kinematic substructures in the Galactic halo
A. Mori, P. Di Matteo, S. Salvadori +4
In the hierarchical assembly framework, the accretion history of the Milky Way is crucial to understand its evolution. However, in massive mergers, integrals of motion are not stri…
NEFERTITI: Linking early galaxy formation to the assembly of the Milky Way
Ioanna Koutsouridou, Stefania Salvadori, Ãsa Skúladóttir +5
We use a new implementation of the NEFERTITI galaxy formation model, coupled to high-resolution Caterpillar dark-matter simulations of Milky Way (MW) analogues, to connec…
Evidence of Gaia Enceladus experiencing at least two passages around the Milky Way
Ãsa Skúladóttir, Heitor Ernandes, Diane K. Feuillet +4
One of the major recent breakthroughs has been the discovery of the last Major Merger to happen in the history of the Milky Way. Around 10 Gyr ago the galaxy Gaia Enceladus, with e…
Metallicity distributions of halo stars: do they trace the Galactic accretion history?
Alice Mori, Paola Di Matteo, Stefania Salvadori +3
The standard cosmological scenario predicts a hierarchical formation for galaxies. Many substructures were found in the Galactic halo, identified as clumps in kinematic spaces, lik…