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Una imagen con resolución de tiempo de la historia de la formación temprana de nuestra Vía Láctea

Maosheng Xiang¹, Hans-Walter Rix²

¹Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Koenigstuhl 17, Heidelberg, Germany. mxiang@mpia.de.

|March 24, 2022

Resumen

Nuestra Vía Láctea

Área de la Ciencia:

Astronomía y astrofísica
Arqueología Galáctica
Evolución estelar

Sus antecedentes:

La formación de la Vía Láctea involucró fases distintas, creando sus poblaciones estelares de halo y disco.
Comprender el ensamblaje galáctico requiere edades estelares precisas de muestras grandes.

Objetivo del estudio:

Para analizar cuantitativamente la historia del montaje de la Vía Láctea usando edades precisas de estrellas subgigantes.
Para resolver las distintas fases de formación del halo galáctico y los componentes del disco.

Principales métodos:

Análisis de una gran muestra de estrellas subgigantes con mediciones precisas de edad.
Examen de la distribución de la edad-metalicidad estelar p{\displaystyle p} , [Fe/H] .

Principales resultados:

La distribución de edad-metalicidad estelar se divide en dos poblaciones alrededor de 8 Gyr.
Una población más joven indica la formación de disco galáctico en reposo con migración radial.
Una población más antigua revela la formación del halo estelar y el disco grueso.

Conclusiones:

El viejo y grueso disco se formó hace aproximadamente 13 años, poco después del Big Bang.
La fusión Gaia-Salchicha-Encélado hace unos 11 años impactó significativamente la formación de estrellas.
La galaxia se sometió a un enriquecimiento químico continuo durante 5-6 Gyr después de la formación inicial.

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