Where are the halo stars?
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Klaus Fuhrmann
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In the usual and most widespread textbook picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, disk stars like the Sun are referred to as Population I, the spheroidal or halo component in turn as Population II. The latter is thought of as the pressure-supported, metal-poor relic of the early Galaxy, with renewed intere