Fossils of the distant Galaxy: NGC 5466 and its stellar stream
The stellar halo of the Milky Way is populated by mostly old and metal-poor stars. As dynamical timescales are of order ~Gyrs at these large distances, accreted stellar substructures, such as dwarf galaxies or globular clusters, survive here as coherent entities longer than anywhere else in the Gala...
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| Language: | English en |
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2020
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12440 |