The age of the Milky Way inner halo

Jason S. Kalirai ()
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Nature, 2012, vol. 486, issue 7401, 90-92

Abstract: Using observations of four nearby white dwarf stars in the Milky Way halo, the age of local-field halo stars is measured to be nearly around 11 billion years.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/nature11062

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