Galactic Archaeology with Gaia

Deason, Alis J.; Belokurov, Vasily

Abstract

The Gaia mission has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way and its satellite citizens. The field of Galactic Archaeology has been piecing together the formation and evolution of the Galaxy for decades, and we have made great strides, with often limited data, towards discovering and characterizing the subcomponents of the Galaxy and its building blocks. Now, the exquisite 6D phase-space plus chemical information from Gaia and its complementary spectroscopic surveys has handed us a plethora of data to pore over as we move towards a quantitative rather than qualitative view of the Galaxy and its progenitors. We review the state of the field in the post-Gaia era, and examine the key lessons that will dictate the future direction of Galactic halo research.

Citation

Deason, A. J., & Belokurov, V. (2024). Galactic Archaeology with Gaia. New Astronomy Reviews, 99, Article 101706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2024.101706

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 9, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jun 25, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024-12
• Deposit Date: Aug 12, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 12, 2024
• Journal: New Astronomy Reviews
• Print ISSN: 1387-6473
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 99
• Article Number: 101706
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2024.101706
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2752269