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2023ApJ...953..143F - Astrophys. J., 953, 143 (2023/August-3)

The Metal-weak Milky Way Stellar Disk Hidden in the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus Debris: The APOGEE DR17 View.

FELTZING S. and FEUILLET D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg-Mn-Al-Fe plane with elemental abundances indicative of an accreted origin and find stars with both halo-like and disk-like kinematics. The stars with halo-like kinematics lie along a lower sequence in [Mg/Fe], while the stars with disk-like kinematics lie along a higher sequence. Combined with astroseismic observations, we determine that the stars with halo-like kinematics are old, 9-11 Gyr, and that the more evolved stellar disk is about 1-2 Gyr younger. We show that the in situ fraction of stars on deeply bound orbits is not small, in fact the inner Galaxy likely harbors a genuine in situ population together with an accreted one. In addition, we show that the selection of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus in the En-Lz plane is not very robust. In fact, radically different selection criteria give almost identical elemental abundance signatures for the accreted stars.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Milky Way Galaxy - Milky Way formation - Milky Way stellar halo - Milky Way disk - Milky Way evolution

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