Qikang Feng

The Epoch of the GSE Merger: Insights from the Splash and Thick-disk Age Distributions

Sihan 思汗 Lu 鲁, Yang Huang, Qikang Feng, Huawei Zhang

Abstract The epoch of the Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus (GSE) merger, the last major merger experienced by the Milky Way, is crucial for reconstructing the Galaxy’s evolutionary history. This event dynamically heated the disk, scattering some stars into the halo and producing the so-cal…Read more