The Case for the Dual Halo of the Milky Way

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Carollo et al.

• have recently resolved the stellar population of the Milky Way halo into at least two distinct components, an inner halo and an outer halo.
• This result has been criticized by Schoenrich et al., who claim that the retrograde signature associated with the outer halo is due to the adoption of faulty distances.
• We refute this claim, and demonstrate that the Schoenrich et al.