Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way
(2021)
Journal Article
Montalbán, J., Mackereth, J. T., Miglio, A., Vincenzo, F., Chiappini, C., Buldgen, G., …Chaplin, W. J. (2021). Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way. Nature Astronomy, 5(7), 640-647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01347-7
The standard cosmological model predicts that galaxies are built through hierarchical assembly on cosmological timescales1,2. The Milky Way, like other disk galaxies, underwent violent mergers and accretion of small satellite galaxies in its early hi... Read More about Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way.