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Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
dc.creator Chaplin, William J.
dc.creator Serenelli, Aldo M.
dc.creator Miglio, Andrea
dc.creator Morel, Thierry
dc.creator Mackereth, J. Ted
dc.creator Vincenzo, Fiorenzo
dc.creator Kjeldsen, Hans
dc.creator Basu, Sarbani
dc.creator Ball, Warrick H.
dc.creator Stokholm, Amalie
dc.creator Verma, Kuldeep
dc.creator Mosumgaard, Jakob Rørsted
dc.creator Silva Aguirre, Victor
dc.creator Mazumdar, Anwesh
dc.creator Ranadive, Pritesh
dc.creator Antia, H. M.
dc.creator Lebreton, Yveline
dc.creator Ong, Joel
dc.creator Appourchaux, Thierry
dc.creator Bedding, Timothy R.
dc.creator Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen
dc.creator Creevey, Orlagh
dc.creator García, Rafael A.
dc.creator Handberg, Rasmus
dc.creator Huber, Daniel
dc.creator Kawaler, Steven D.
dc.creator Lund, Mikkel N.
dc.creator Metcalfe, Travis S.
dc.creator Stassun, Keivan G.
dc.creator Bazot, Michäel
dc.creator Beck, Paul G.
dc.creator Bell, Keaton J.
dc.creator Bergemann, Maria
dc.creator Buzasi, Derek L.
dc.creator Benomar, Othman
dc.creator Bossini, Diego
dc.creator Bugnet, Lisa
dc.creator Campante, Tiago L.
dc.creator Orhan, Zeynep Çelik
dc.creator Corsaro, Enrico
dc.creator González-Cuesta, Lucía
dc.creator Davies, Guy R.
dc.creator Di Mauro, Maria Pia
dc.creator Egeland, Ricky
dc.creator Elsworth, Yvonne P.
dc.creator Gaulme, Patrick
dc.creator Ghasemi, Hamed
dc.creator Guo, Zhao
dc.creator Hall, Oliver J.
dc.creator Hasanzadeh, Amir
dc.creator Hekker, Saskia
dc.creator Howe, Rachel
dc.creator Jenkins, Jon M.
dc.creator Jiménez, Antonio
dc.creator Kiefer, René
dc.creator Kuszlewicz, James S.
dc.creator Kallinger, Thomas
dc.creator Latham, David W.
dc.creator Lundkvist, Mia S.
dc.creator Mathur, Savita
dc.creator Montalbán, Josefina
dc.creator Mosser, Benoit
dc.creator Bedón, Andres Moya
dc.creator Nielsen, Martin Bo
dc.creator Örtel, Sibel
dc.creator Rendle, Ben M.
dc.creator Ricker, George R.
dc.creator Rodrigues, Thaíse S.
dc.creator Roxburgh, Ian W.
dc.creator Safari, Hossein
dc.creator Schofield, Mathew
dc.creator Seager, Sara
dc.creator Smalley, Barry
dc.creator Stello, Dennis
dc.creator Szabó, Róbert
dc.creator Tayar, Jamie
dc.creator Themeßl, Nathalie
dc.creator Thomas, Alexandra E. L.
dc.creator Vanderspek, Roland K.
dc.creator van Rossem, Walter E.
dc.creator Vrard, Mathieu
dc.creator Weiss, Achim
dc.creator White, Timothy R.
dc.creator Winn, Joshua N.
dc.creator Yıldız, Mutlu
dc.date 2020-12-23T18:28:10Z
dc.date 2020-12-23T18:28:10Z
dc.date 2020-01
dc.date 2019-10
dc.date 2020-04-28T17:34:30Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:05:58Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:05:58Z
dc.identifier 2397-3366
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128912
dc.identifier Chaplin, William J. et al. "Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi." Nature Astronomy 4, 4 (January 2020): 382–389 © 2020 The Author(s)
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278741
dc.description Over the course of its history, the Milky Way has ingested multiple smaller satellite galaxies1. Although these accreted stellar populations can be forensically identified as kinematically distinct structures within the Galaxy, it is difficult in general to date precisely the age at which any one merger occurred. Recent results have revealed a population of stars that were accreted via the collision of a dwarf galaxy, called Gaia–Enceladus1, leading to substantial pollution of the chemical and dynamical properties of the Milky Way. Here we identify the very bright, naked-eye star ν Indi as an indicator of the age of the early in situ population of the Galaxy. We combine asteroseismic, spectroscopic, astrometric and kinematic observations to show that this metal-poor, alpha-element-rich star was an indigenous member of the halo, and we measure its age to be 11.0 ± 0.7 (stat) ± 0.8 (sys) billion years. The star bears hallmarks consistent with having been kinematically heated by the Gaia–Enceladus collision. Its age implies that the earliest the merger could have begun was 11.6 and 13.2 billion years ago, at 68% and 95% confidence, respectively. Computations based on hierarchical cosmological models slightly reduce the above limits.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9
dc.relation Nature Astronomy
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source arXiv
dc.title Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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