MILKY WAY FORMATION
2026
- The Low-α Splash Population in the Milky Way (Borbolato et al. 2026)
- Proof that the Milky Way experienced a significant merger only 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang (Massari et al. 2026)
- The origin of strong α-element bimodalities in FIRE simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies (Barry et al. 2026)
2025
- Early Coformation of the Milky Way's Thin and Thick Disks at Redshift z > 2 (Borbolato et al. 2025)
- Rising from the Ashes: A Metallicity-dependent Star Formation Gap Splits the Milky Way’s α Sequences (Beane 2025)
- How Early Could the Milky Way’s Disk Form? (Semenov et al. 2025)
- The formation and survival of the Milky Way’s oldest stellar disk (Xiang et al. 2025)
2024
- On the existence of a very metal-poor disc in the Milky Way (Zhang et al. 2024)
- Chronology of our Galaxy from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting (ChronoGal). I. The formation and evolution of the thin disc from the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Gallart et al. 2024)
- Formation of Galactic Disks. I. Why Did the Milky Way’s Disk Form Unusually Early? (Semenov et al. 2024)
- Disc settling and dynamical heating: histories of Milky Way-mass stellar discs across cosmic time in the FIRE simulations (McCluskey et al. 2024)
2023
- The proto-galaxy of Milky Way-mass haloes in the FIRE simulations (Horta et al. 2023)
- Taking the Milky Way for a spin: disc formation in the artemis simulations (Dillamore et al. 2023)
- Timing the formation of the galactic thin disc with asteroseismic stellar ages (Wu et al. 2023)
2022
2021
- Characterizing epochs of star formation across the Milky Way disc using age–metallicity distributions of GALAH stars (Sahlholdt et al. 2021)
- VINTERGATAN III: how to reset the metallicity of the Milky Way (Renaud et al. 2021c)
- VINTERGATAN – II. The history of the Milky Way told by its mergers (Renaud et al. 2021b)
- Stellar migration and chemical enrichment in the Milky Way disc: a hybrid model (Johnson et al. 2021)
- Co-formation of the thin and thick discs revealed by APOGEE-DR16 and Gaia-DR2 (Beraldo e Silva et al. 2021)
- Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy (Horta et al. 2021)
- Age dissection of the Milky Way discs: Red giants in the Kepler field (Miglio et al. 2021)
2020
- The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia–Enceladus Sausage merger (Grand et al. 2020)
- Evidence for Galactic disc RR Lyrae stars in the solar neighbourhood (Prudil et al. 2020)
- The biggest splash (Belokurov et al. 2020)
- Reviving old controversies: is the early Galaxy flat or round? Investigations into the early phases of the Milky Way’s formation through stellar kinematics and chemical abundances (Di Matteo et al. 2020)
- The recurrent impact of the Sagittarius dwarf on the star formation history of the Milky Way (Ruiz-Lara et al. 2020)
- On the origin of the chemical bimodality of disc stars: a tale of merger and migration (Buck 2020)
- The Splash without a Merger (Amarante et al. 2020)
2019
2018
- The merger that led to the formation of the Milky Way’s inner stellar halo and thick disk (Helmi et al. 2018)
- Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo (Belokurov et al. 2018)