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Timing the Early Assembly of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey

  • Authors: Ana Bonaca, Charlie Conroy, Phillip A. Cargile, Rohan P. Naidu, Benjamin D. Johnson, Dennis Zaritsky, Yuan-Sen Ting, Nelson Caldwell, Jiwon Jesse Han, and Pieter van Dokkum

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 897 L18.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Initial ﹩[\alpha /\mathrm{Fe}]﹩ vs. initial ﹩[\mathrm{Fe}/{\rm{H}}]﹩ for all high signal-to-noise stars in the H3 survey (top), those within 1 kpc from the Galactic plane (middle), and our adopted sample of main-sequence turn-off stars (bottom). All panels clearly show the presence of three distinct components, delineated with colored lines: the metal-poor population with a wide range of ﹩[\alpha /\mathrm{Fe}]﹩ (blue), and the high-α (red) and low-α (orange) populations at high metallicities.

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