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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 .

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Caption: Figure C3.

Two-Gaussian decomposition of the Splash samples selected with the alternative angular-momentum cuts defined in Figure C1(c). The left column corresponds to Lz < 400 kpc km s−1, and the right column to Lz < 600 kpc km s−1. Panels (a) and (b) show the selection-corrected age–[Fe/H] distributions together with the best-fitting age–[Fe/H] relations of the two Gaussian components. Panels (c) and (d) show the observed and model age distributions, while panels (e) and (f) show the corresponding [Fe/H] distributions. All other plotting conventions are the same as in Figure 2.

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