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The Milky Way’s Early Disk Was Built in Bursts. I. Evidence from Low-angular-momentum, High-α Stars Scattered Out of the Protodisk by Merger Events

  • Authors: Tiancheng Sun, Maosheng Xiang, Shaolan Bi, Jifeng Liu, Meng Zhang, Yaqian Wu

Tiancheng Sun et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Age and metallicity distributions before and after correction for selection effects. The normalized probability-density distributions of age (left panels) and [Fe/H] (right panels) are shown for the Splash (top panels) and high-α disk (bottom panels) samples. The gray and red histograms represent the observed distributions before correction and the selection-corrected distributions, respectively. The corrected distributions are calculated using normalized inverse-selection weights, ωi ∝ 1/si, where si = s(τi, [Fe/H]i, [α/Fe]i). Each histogram is independently normalized to unit integral.

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