What Is Missing from the Local Stellar Halo?
The Milky Way’s stellar halo, which extends to >100 kpc, encodes the evolutionary history of our Galaxy. However, most studies of the halo to date have been limited to within a few kiloparsecs of the Sun. Here, we characterize differences between this local halo and the stellar halo in its entire...
Main Authors: | Katherine Sharpe, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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Series: | The Astrophysical Journal |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad19ca |
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