Galactic Archaeology with Gaia
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The halo of our Galaxy is believed to be mainly formed by the materials accreted/merged in the past, and so has "extragalactic" origin. Such formation process will leave dynamical traces imprinted in the halo, like stellar substructures, distinguishable from the in-situ halo component. Studying the present-day structure and substructures of the Milky Way halo is one of the most direct ways of understanding the formation and the evolutionary history of the Galaxy, as well as investigating the
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Belokurov, Vasily