Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger
Relying on the dramatic increase in the number of stars with full 6D phase-space information provided by the Gaia Data Release 3, we resolve the distribution of the stellar halo around the Sun to uncover signatures of incomplete phase-mixing. We show that, for the stars likely belonging to the last massive merger, the (v r, r) distribution contains
Belokurov, Vasily et al.
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2023