The impact of early massive mergers on the chemical evolution of Milky Way-like galaxies: insights from NIHAO-UHD simulations

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@ARTICLE{Buck2020,
       author = {{Buck}, Tobias and {Obreja}, Aura and {Macci{\`o}}, Andrea V. and {Minchev}, Ivan and {Dutton}, Aaron A. and {Ostriker}, Jeremiah P.},
        title = "{NIHAO-UHD: the properties of MW-like stellar discs in high-resolution cosmological simulations}",
      journal = {\mnras},
     keywords = {methods: numerical, galaxies: formation, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Galaxy: disc, Galaxy: evolution, Galaxy: structure, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
         year = 2020,
        month = jan,
       volume = {491},
       number = {3},
        pages = {3461-3478},
          doi = {10.1093/mnras/stz3241},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {1909.05864},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.GA},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.491.3461B},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

and for the NIHAO-UHD simulations:

@ARTICLE{Buck2020,
       author = {{Buck}, Tobias and {Obreja}, Aura and {Macci{\`o}}, Andrea V. and {Minchev}, Ivan and {Dutton}, Aaron A. and {Ostriker}, Jeremiah P.},
        title = "{NIHAO-UHD: the properties of MW-like stellar discs in high-resolution cosmological simulations}",
      journal = {\mnras},
     keywords = {methods: numerical, galaxies: formation, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Galaxy: disc, Galaxy: evolution, Galaxy: structure, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies},
         year = 2020,
        month = jan,
       volume = {491},
       number = {3},
        pages = {3461-3478},
          doi = {10.1093/mnras/stz3241},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {1909.05864},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.GA},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.491.3461B},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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