The first Giga-years of the Milky Way halo and its satellites told by RRLs

Authors
Giuliana Fiorentino
Date and time
15 Sep 2022 - 10:30 Europe/London
Address

Pleyades

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

The first Gigayears of our Galactic halo can be probed by using ancient stellar populations as traced by RR Lyrae stars. Today, with the advancement in our knowledge of RR Lyrae properties belonging to the Halo and to Milky Way satellite systems (Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies) we are able
to provide solid constraints on the link between these stellar systems. Here, we present some recent results concerning the Halo formation by using a detailed evolutionary analysis of RR Lyrae stars for which chemical abundances are available.