{"paper":{"title":"Stellar orbital properties as diagnostics of the origin of the stellar halo","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"2), (2) Michigan Society of Fellows, (3) Univ. of Alabama, (4) Univ of Central Lancashire, (5) Max Planck Institute for Astronomie), Adam Clarke (4), Greg Stinson (5) ((1) Univ. of Michigan, Jeremy Bailin (3), Monica Valluri (1), Sarah R. Loebman (1, Victor P. Debattista (4)","submitted_at":"2015-10-18T15:17:35Z","abstract_excerpt":"We examine metallicities, ages and orbital properties of halo stars in a Milky-Way like disk galaxy formed in the cosmological hydrodynamical MaGICC simulations. Halo stars were either accreted from satellites or they formed in situ in the disk or bulge of the galaxy and were then kicked up into the halo (\"in situ/ kicked-up\" stars). Regardless of where they formed both types show surprisingly similar orbital properties: the majority of stars of both types are on short-axis tubes with the same sense of rotation as the disk -- implying that a large fraction of satellites are accreted onto the h"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1510.06006","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}