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Caption: Figure 4.
Stellar populations in a Milky Way/M31-like galaxy from TNG50 (IDz = 0 = 414917). Top: Age distributions of disk stars (gray) and in situ halo stars (red), defined as in situ stars with Lz ≥ 500 and <500 kpc km s−1, respectively. The vertical lines mark the merger times of three satellites with stellar mass ratios of 0.14 (blue), 0.09 (yellow), and 0.06 (green). Bottom: Galactocentric distances of accreted stars as a function of lookback time.
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