The Phoenix stellar stream rose from the ashes of an ancient star cluster
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2020-09-29 v1
Abstract
Observations of an ancient stellar stream provide the first evidence of a vanished population of extremely metal-poor stellar clusters. Their remnants might reveal how the early assembly of the Milky Way proceeded.
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@article{arxiv.2009.12371,
title = {The Phoenix stellar stream rose from the ashes of an ancient star cluster},
author = {J. M. Diederik Kruijssen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12371},
year = {2020}
}
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3 pages, 1 figure; author's original version of a News & Views article in Nature, commenting on Wan et al., Nature, 583, 768-770 (2020); for the published version (open access) please see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02046-5