Stellar Halo Memory: A New Observable for Galactic Archaeology

arXiv:2607.10863 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-12 · Read on arXiv

Biswajit Pandey, Amit Mondal

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-12

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures, comments are welcome

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Information-Theoretic Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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