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Disentangling the Galactic Halo with APOGEE. II. Chemical and Star Formation Histories for the Two Distinct Populations

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Fernández-Alvar, Emma, Carigi, Leticia, Schuster, William J., Hayes, Christian R., Ávila-Vergara, Nancy, Majewski, Steve R., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Beers, Timothy C. +8 more·2018·The Astrophysical Journal

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The formation processes that led to the current Galactic stellar halo are still under debate. Previous studies have provided evidence for different stellar populations in terms of elemental abundances and kinematics, pointing to different chemical and star formation histories (SFHs). In the present work, we explore, over a broader range in metallicity (), the two stellar populations detected in the first paper of this series from metal-poor stars in DR13 of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). We aim to infer signatures of the initial mass function (IMF) and the SFH from the two α-to-iron versus iron abundance chemical trends for the most APOGEE-reliable α-elements (O, Mg, Si, and Ca). Using simple chemical-evolution models, we infer the upper mass limit (Mup) for the IMF and the star formation rate, and its duration for each population. Compared with the low-α population, we obtain a more intense and longer-lived SFH, and a top-heavier IMF for the high-α population.

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  • Gaia-Enceladus had a stellar mass of ∼6 × 10^8 M_sun, estimated by integrating an average star formation rate of 0.3 M_sun yr−1 over about 2 Gyr.

    “These authors showed that the sequence could be reproduced if the stars had formed in a system with an average SFR of 0.3 M ࣻ year -1 over a period of 2 Gyr or so.By integrating this SFR, Helmi et al. (2018) subsequently estimated a stellar mass of ∼6 × 10 8 M ࣻ for Gaia-Enceladus.”

    From Streams, Substructures, and the Early History of the Milky Way (2020) · cites this paper as Fernández-Alvar et al. 2018

    Section 4.2.1 reports modeled star-formation rates for two halo populations, but our copy does not give the claimed average of 0.3 solar masses per year over about 2 Gyr. Searches for those figures and the resulting stellar mass found no supporting passage. The citing sentence explicitly attributes the ∼6 × 10^8 solar-mass estimate to Helmi et al. (2018), not to this source. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  2. Hayes, C. R., Majewski, S. R., Shetrone, M., et al. 2017, in press (arXiv:1711. 05781)
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Fernández-Alvar, E., Carigi, L., Schuster, W. J., Hayes, C. R., Ávila-Vergara, N., Majewski, S. R., Allende Prieto, C., Beers, T. C., Sánchez, S. F., Zamora, O., García-Hernández, D. A., Tang, B., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Tissera, P., Geisler, D., & Villanova, S.
Affiliations
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX)
  • University of Virginia (US)
  • Universidad Iberoamericana (MX)
  • University of Notre Dame (US)
  • Universidad de La Laguna (ES)
  • University of Concepción (CL)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Universidad Andrés Bello (CL)
Venue
The Astrophysical Journal
Published
2018-01-01
Volume
852
Issue
1
Pages
50
ISSN
  • 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-4357
OpenAlex
W2770675362
Cited by
68
References
79
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Language
en
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1616636, 1312863, PHY 14-30152;)
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • Yale University
  • Carnegie Institution of Washington
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Washington (14-30152)
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Portsmouth (PHY 14-30152)
  • New Mexico State University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of the Elements (PHY-1430152)
  • York University
  • University of Oxford
  • Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (AYA−2014 −58082-P, AYA2015-65205-P)
  • Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IG100115, IN103014)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Office of Science
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
  • Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Keywords
Galactic stellar halo, stellar populations, star formation history, initial mass function, chemical evolution models, metal-poor stars, star formation rate

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