Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi
William Chaplin
(1)
,
Aldo Serenelli
(2)
,
Andrea Miglio
(3)
,
Thierry Morel
(4)
,
J. Ted Mackereth
,
Fiorenzo Vincenzo
,
Hans Kjeldsen
(5)
,
Sarbani Basu
(6)
,
Warrick Ball
,
Amalie Stokholm
,
Kuldeep Verma
(7)
,
Jakob Rørsted Mosumgaard
,
Victor Silva Aguirre
(8)
,
Anwesh Mazumdar
,
Pritesh Ranadive
,
H. Antia
,
Yveline Lebreton
(9, 10)
,
Joel Ong
,
Thierry Appourchaux
(11)
,
Timothy R Bedding
(12)
,
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
(5)
,
Orlagh Creevey
(13)
,
Rafael Garcia
(14)
,
Rasmus Handberg
(15)
,
Daniel Huber
(12)
,
Steven Kawaler
(16)
,
Mikkel Lund
,
Travis Metcalfe
,
Keivan Stassun
,
Michaël Bazot
(5)
,
Paul Beck
,
Keaton Bell
,
Maria Bergemann
,
Derek Buzasi
,
Othman Benomar
,
Diego Bossini
,
Lisa Bugnet
,
Tiago Campante
,
Zeynep Çelik Orhan
,
Enrico Corsaro
(17)
,
Lucía González-Cuesta
,
Guy Davies
,
Maria Pia Di Mauro
(18)
,
Ricky Egeland
,
Yvonne Elsworth
(3)
,
Patrick Gaulme
(19)
,
Hamed Ghasemi
,
Zhao Guo
,
Oliver Hall
,
Amir Hasanzadeh
,
Saskia Hekker
(3)
,
Rachel Howe
,
Jon Jenkins
(20)
,
Antonio Antonio.Jimenez@car.Upm-Csic.Es Jiménez
(21)
,
René Kiefer
(22)
,
James D Kuszlewicz
(23)
,
Thomas Kallinger
(24)
,
David Latham
,
Mia Lundkvist
,
Savita Mathur
(25)
,
Josefina Montalbán
(26)
,
Benoit Mosser
(10)
,
Andres Moya Bedón
,
Martin Bo Nielsen
,
Sibel Örtel
,
Ben Rendle
,
George R. Ricker
(27)
,
Thaíse Rodrigues
,
Ian Roxburgh
,
Hossein Safari
,
Mathew Schofield
,
Sara Seager
,
Barry Smalley
,
Dennis Stello
(12)
,
Róbert Szabó
(28)
,
Jamie Tayar
(29)
,
Nathalie Themessl
,
Alexandra Thomas
,
Roland Vanderspek
,
Walter van Rossem
,
Mathieu Vrard
(30)
,
Achim Weiss
(8)
,
Timothy White
,
Joshua Winn
,
Mutlu Yildiz
1
Department of Psychology
2 ICE-CSIC - Institute of Space Sciences [Barcelona]
3 School of Physics and Astronomy
4 CERFACS - Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique
5 DASC - Danish AsteroSeismology Centre
6 Department of Astronomy [New Haven]
7 Aarhus University [Aarhus]
8 MPA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
9 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes
10 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
11 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
12 SIfA - Sydney Institute for Astronomy
13 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
14 VICOROB - Research institute of Computer Vision and Robotics [Girona]
15 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus]
16 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Iowa City]
17 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
18 IASF-Roma - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Roma
19 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
20 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
21 CAR - Centre for Automation and Robotics
22 KIS - Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik
23 SAC - Stellar Astrophysics Centre [Aarhus]
24 Instituut voor Sterrenkunde [Leuven]
25 HAO - High Altitude Observatory
26 Département des Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement/Océanologie [Liège]
27 CSR - Center for Space Research [Cambridge]
28 High Speed Networks Laboratory, Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics
29 OSU - The Ohio State University [Columbus]
30 Observatoire de Paris
2 ICE-CSIC - Institute of Space Sciences [Barcelona]
3 School of Physics and Astronomy
4 CERFACS - Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique
5 DASC - Danish AsteroSeismology Centre
6 Department of Astronomy [New Haven]
7 Aarhus University [Aarhus]
8 MPA - Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
9 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes
10 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
11 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
12 SIfA - Sydney Institute for Astronomy
13 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
14 VICOROB - Research institute of Computer Vision and Robotics [Girona]
15 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus]
16 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Iowa City]
17 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
18 IASF-Roma - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Roma
19 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
20 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
21 CAR - Centre for Automation and Robotics
22 KIS - Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik
23 SAC - Stellar Astrophysics Centre [Aarhus]
24 Instituut voor Sterrenkunde [Leuven]
25 HAO - High Altitude Observatory
26 Département des Sciences et Gestion de l'Environnement/Océanologie [Liège]
27 CSR - Center for Space Research [Cambridge]
28 High Speed Networks Laboratory, Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics
29 OSU - The Ohio State University [Columbus]
30 Observatoire de Paris
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Thierry Morel
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J. Ted Mackereth
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Anwesh Mazumdar
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Pritesh Ranadive
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Daniel Huber
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Diego Bossini
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Tiago Campante
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Zeynep Çelik Orhan
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Hamed Ghasemi
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Ben Rendle
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Thaíse Rodrigues
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Abstract
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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