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{{Short description|Remains galaxy merger in the Milky Way}}
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| name               = Gaia Sausage <br/> or Gaia Enceladus <br/> or Enceladus Galaxy
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| caption            = Artist’s impression of debris from the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus galaxy. Yellow arrows represent the positions and velocities of stars originating from the dwarf galaxy, the data taken from a simulated merger with the Milky Way with similar properties to the one believed to have occurred.
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The '''Gaia Sausage''' or '''Gaia Enceladus''' is the remains of a [[Astronomy:Dwarf galaxy|dwarf galaxy]] (the '''Sausage Galaxy''', or '''Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage''', or '''Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus''') that merged with the [[Astronomy:Milky Way|Milky Way]] about 8–11&nbsp;billion years ago. At least eight [[Astronomy:Globular cluster|globular cluster]]s were added to the Milky Way along with 50&nbsp;billion [[Astronomy:Solar mass|solar mass]]es of stars, gas and [[Astronomy:Dark matter|dark matter]].<ref name=Myeong_etal>{{cite journal |last1=Myeong |first1=G.C.
 |last2=Evans |first2=N.W.
 |last3=Belokurov |first3=V.
 |last4=Sanders |first4=J.L.
 |last5=Koposov |first5=S.
 |title=The Sausage globular clusters
 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=863 |issue=2 |pages=L28
 |date=2018|bibcode=2018ApJ...863L..28M |arxiv=1805.00453 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/aad7f7|s2cid=67791285
 |doi-access=free
 }}</ref> It represents the last major merger of the Milky Way.<ref name=ESA-GAIA-60892> {{cite web |url= https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/60892-galactic-ghosts-gaia-uncovers-major-event-in-the-formation-of-the-milky-way |title= Galactic Ghosts: Gaia Uncovers Major Event in the Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy |date= 31 October 2018 |work= Gaia |publisher= ESA }} </ref><ref name="Skibba">{{cite journal |last1=Skibba |first1=Ramin |title=A galactic archaeologist digs into the Milky Way's history |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=10 June 2021 |doi=10.1146/knowable-060921-1 |s2cid=236290725 |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2021/a-galactic-archaeologist-digs-milky-ways-history |access-date=4 August 2022|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Etymology==
The "Gaia Sausage" is so-called because of the characteristic sausage shape of the population in a chart of velocity space, in particular a plot of radial (<math>\boldsymbol{v}_r</math>) versus azimuthal velocity (<math>\boldsymbol{v}_\theta</math>) of stars (See [[Spherical coordinate system|spherical coordinate system]]), using data from the Gaia Mission.<ref name=Myeong_etal/> The stars that have merged with the Milky Way have orbits that are highly elongated. The outermost points of their orbits are around 20&nbsp;kiloparsecs from the [[Galactic Center]] at what is called the "halo break."<ref name=Deason>{{cite journal |last1=Deason |first1=Alis |last2=Belokurov |first2=Vasily |last3=Koposov |first3=Sergey |last4=Lancaster |first4=Lachlan |title=Apocenter Pile-Up: Origin of the stellar halo density break |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=862 |issue=1 |pages=L1 |date=2018|bibcode=2018ApJ...862L...1D |arxiv=1805.10288 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/aad0ee|s2cid=118936735 |doi-access=free }}</ref> These stars had previously been seen in Hipparcos data <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chiba |first1=Masashi |last2=Beers |first2=Timothy C. |title=Kinematics of Metal-poor Stars in the Galaxy. III. Formation of the Stellar Halo and Thick Disk as Revealed from a Large Sample of Nonkinematically Selected Stars |journal=The Astronomical Journal |date=June 2000 |volume=119 |issue=6 |pages=2843–2865 |doi=10.1086/301409|bibcode=2000AJ....119.2843C |arxiv=astro-ph/0003087 |s2cid=16620828 }}</ref> and identified as originаting from an accreted galaxy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brook |first1=Chris B. |last2=Kawata |first2=Daisuke |last3=Gibson |first3=Brad K. |last4=Flynn |first4=Chris |title=Galactic Halo Stars in Phase Space: A Hint of Satellite Accretion? |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=10 March 2003 |volume=585 |issue=2 |pages=L125–L129 |doi=10.1086/374306|bibcode=2003ApJ...585L.125B |arxiv=astro-ph/0301596 |s2cid=16936195 }}</ref>

The name "Enceladus" refers to the mythological giant Enceladus, who was buried under [[Earth:Mount Etna|Mount Etna]] and caused [[Earth:Earthquake|earthquake]]s. Thus this former galaxy was buried in the Milky Way, and caused the puffing up of the thick disc.<ref name=ESA-GAIA-60892/>

==Components==
=== Globular clusters ===
The globular clusters firmly identified as former Sausage members are [[Astronomy:Messier 2|Messier 2]], [[Astronomy:Messier 56|Messier 56]], [[Astronomy:Messier 75|Messier 75]], [[Astronomy:Messier 79|Messier 79]], [[Astronomy:NGC 1851|NGC 1851]], [[Astronomy:NGC 2298|NGC 2298]], and [[Astronomy:NGC 5286|NGC 5286]].<ref name=Myeong_etal/>

===The nature of NGC 2808===
[[File:NGC 2808 HST.jpg|thumb|250px|NGC 2808, possible old core of Gaia Sausage]]
[[Astronomy:NGC 2808|NGC 2808]] is another globular-like cluster of the Sausage. It is composed of three generations of stars, all born within 200 million years of the formation of the cluster.<ref>{{cite journal
 | author=Piotto, G. |display-authors=0  | title=A Triple Main Sequence in the Globular Cluster NGC 2808
 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=661| issue=1
 | pages=L53–L56 |date=May 2007
 | doi=10.1086/518503 | bibcode=2007ApJ...661L..53P |arxiv = astro-ph/0703767 |s2cid=119376556 }}</ref>

One theory to account for three generations of stars is that NGC 2808 is the former core of the Sausage.<ref name=Myeong_etal/> This could also account for its stellar population of over a million stars, which is unusually large for a globular cluster.

=== Stars ===
The stars from this dwarf orbit the Milky Way core with extreme [[Astronomy:Orbital eccentricity|eccentricities]] on the order of about 0.9. Their [[Astronomy:Metallicity|metallicity]] is also typically higher than other halo stars, with most having [Fe/H] > &minus;1.7&nbsp;dex, i.e., at least 2% of the solar value<ref name=Deason/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Iorio|first1=Giuliano|date=2021|title=Chemo-kinematcs of the Gaia RR Lyrae: the halo and the disc|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=502|issue=4|pages=5686–5710|doi=10.1093/mnras/stab005|bibcode=2021MNRAS.502.5686I|last2=Belokurov|first2=Vasily|arxiv=2008.02280}}</ref>

The "Gaia Sausage" reconstructed the Milky Way by puffing up the [[Astronomy:Thin disk|thin disk]] to make it a [[Astronomy:Thick disk|thick disk]], whilst the gas it brought into the Milky Way triggered a fresh round of star formation and replenished the thin disk. The debris from the dwarf galaxy provides most of the metal-rich part of the [[Astronomy:Galactic halo|galactic halo]].<ref name=Myeong_etal/>

==See also==
* [[Astronomy:Field of Streams|Field of Streams]]
* [[Astronomy:Monoceros Ring|Monoceros Ring]]
* [[Astronomy:Omega Centauri|Omega Centauri]]
* [[Astronomy:M32p|M32p]], large galaxy merged into Andromeda Galaxy, responsible for its thick disc and most halo stars
* [[Astronomy:J1124+4535|J1124+4535]]
* [[Astronomy:Kraken galaxy|Kraken galaxy]], another proposed large galaxy merged into Milky Way but earlier, contributed at least some of the surviving 150 globular clusters to the Milky Way.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |title=Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=478 |number=1 |pages= 611–619 |date=July 2018 |arxiv=1802.03414 |doi=10.1093/mnras/sty982 |bibcode= 2018MNRAS.478..611B |last1=Belokurov |first1=V. |last2=Erkal |first2=D. |last3=Evans |first3=N.W. |last4=Koposov |first4=S.E. |last5=Deason |first5=A.J.}}
* {{cite journal |title=The Milky Way halo in action space |date=April 2018 |arxiv=1802.03351 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/aab613 |bibcode=2018ApJ...856L..26M |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters |volume=856 |issue=2 |page=L26 |last1=Myeong |first1=G.C. |last2=Evans |first2=N.W. |last3=Belokurov |first3=V. |last4=Sanders |first4=J.L. |last5=Koposov |first5=S.E.|s2cid=73518200 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite arXiv  |title= The Shards of ω&nbsp;Centauri |eprint=1804.07050 |class=astro-ph.GA |date=April 2018 |last1=Myeong |first1=G.C. |last2=Evans |first2=N.W. |last3=Belokurov |first3=V. |last4= Sanders |first4=J.L. |last5=Koposov |first5=S.E.}}
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==External links==
* {{cite news |url= https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2018/july/gaia-sausage.html |title= The Gaia Sausage: The major collision that changed the Milky Way galaxy |date=4 July 2018 |first= Jocelyn |last= Duffy |publisher= Carnegie Mellon University}}
* {{cite news |url= https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-gaia-sausage-the-major-collision-that-changed-the-milky-way |title= The Gaia Sausage: The major collision that changed the Milky Way |publisher= University of Cambridge |first= Sarah |last= Collins |date= 4 July 2018 }}

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