@article{11611,
  abstract     = {Over the course of its history, the Milky Way has ingested multiple smaller satellite galaxies1. Although these accreted stellar populations can be forensically identified as kinematically distinct structures within the Galaxy, it is difficult in general to date precisely the age at which any one merger occurred. Recent results have revealed a population of stars that were accreted via the collision of a dwarf galaxy, called Gaia–Enceladus1, leading to substantial pollution of the chemical and dynamical properties of the Milky Way. Here we identify the very bright, naked-eye star ν Indi as an indicator of the age of the early in situ population of the Galaxy. We combine asteroseismic, spectroscopic, astrometric and kinematic observations to show that this metal-poor, alpha-element-rich star was an indigenous member of the halo, and we measure its age to be 11.0±0.7 (stat) ±0.8 (sys) billion years. The star bears hallmarks consistent with having been kinematically heated by the Gaia–Enceladus collision. Its age implies that the earliest the merger could have begun was 11.6 and 13.2 billion years ago, at 68% and 95% confidence, respectively. Computations based on hierarchical cosmological models slightly reduce the above limits.},
  author       = {Chaplin, William J. and Serenelli, Aldo M. and Miglio, Andrea and Morel, Thierry and Mackereth, J. Ted and Vincenzo, Fiorenzo and Kjeldsen, Hans and Basu, Sarbani and Ball, Warrick H. and Stokholm, Amalie and Verma, Kuldeep and Mosumgaard, Jakob Rørsted and Silva Aguirre, Victor and Mazumdar, Anwesh and Ranadive, Pritesh and Antia, H. M. and Lebreton, Yveline and Ong, Joel and Appourchaux, Thierry and Bedding, Timothy R. and Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen and Creevey, Orlagh and García, Rafael A. and Handberg, Rasmus and Huber, Daniel and Kawaler, Steven D. and Lund, Mikkel N. and Metcalfe, Travis S. and Stassun, Keivan G. and Bazot, Michäel and Beck, Paul G. and Bell, Keaton J. and Bergemann, Maria and Buzasi, Derek L. and Benomar, Othman and Bossini, Diego and Bugnet, Lisa Annabelle and Campante, Tiago L. and Orhan, Zeynep Çelik and Corsaro, Enrico and González-Cuesta, Lucía and Davies, Guy R. and Di Mauro, Maria Pia and Egeland, Ricky and Elsworth, Yvonne P. and Gaulme, Patrick and Ghasemi, Hamed and Guo, Zhao and Hall, Oliver J. and Hasanzadeh, Amir and Hekker, Saskia and Howe, Rachel and Jenkins, Jon M. and Jiménez, Antonio and Kiefer, René and Kuszlewicz, James S. and Kallinger, Thomas and Latham, David W. and Lundkvist, Mia S. and Mathur, Savita and Montalbán, Josefina and Mosser, Benoit and Bedón, Andres Moya and Nielsen, Martin Bo and Örtel, Sibel and Rendle, Ben M. and Ricker, George R. and Rodrigues, Thaíse S. and Roxburgh, Ian W. and Safari, Hossein and Schofield, Mathew and Seager, Sara and Smalley, Barry and Stello, Dennis and Szabó, Róbert and Tayar, Jamie and Themeßl, Nathalie and Thomas, Alexandra E. L. and Vanderspek, Roland K. and van Rossem, Walter E. and Vrard, Mathieu and Weiss, Achim and White, Timothy R. and Winn, Joshua N. and Yıldız, Mutlu},
  issn         = {2397-3366},
  journal      = {Nature Astronomy},
  keywords     = {Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {382--389},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi}},
  doi          = {10.1038/s41550-019-0975-9},
  volume       = {4},
  year         = {2020},
}