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Stellar Ancestry Unlocked: Chemical and Orbital Clues Link Metal-poor Stars to Globular Clusters and the Galaxy’s Thick Disk

  • Authors: Gizay Yolalan, Timur Şahin, Selçuk Bilir, Olcay Plevne

Gizay Yolalan et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Orbital properties of five stars in the Lindblad diagram. Color-coded distribution of stellar angular momentum (Ltot) over the Milky Way stellar density map, with colored circles marking GC positions in the Galaxy (left panel). The same diagram is color-coded according to metallicity (right panel). The overplotted labeled markers indicate the positions of the selected stars (HD 122956, HD 189349, HD 005916, HD 122956, and HD 218857) used in this study. The vertical dashed line corresponds to Lz = 0, which separates prograde (right) and retrograde (left) orbits.

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