The Baryon Halo of the Milky Way

Details The Baryon Halo of the Milky Way The Baryon Halo of the Milky Way

Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000sci...287...79b&link_type=abstract

Science, Vol. 287, p. 79 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxy, Milky Way, Galactic Halo, Globular Clusters, Cosmology

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Astronomers believe that the baryon (stellar) halo of the Milky Way retains a fossil imprint of how it was formed. But a vast literature shows that we are still struggling to interpret the observations within a consistent framework. The evidence indicates that the halo has built up through a process of accretion and merging over billions of years, which is still going on at a low level. Future satellite missions to derive 3D space motions and heavy element (metal) abundances for a billion stars will disentangle the existing web and elucidate how galaxies like our own came into existence.

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