Extended Data Fig. 5: Examination of selection effect through Gaia Mock data.
From: A time-resolved picture of our Milky Way’s early formation history

Left panel: Age – [Fe/H] relation for subgiant stars in the Gaia mock catalog of Rybizki et al. 44. The sample includes about 1,250,000 subgiant stars that in the same footprint and magnitude ranges as for the LAMOST. Right panel: Same as the left panel, but for a subset of the Gaia mock subgiant stars that has comparable number of the LAMOST sample (about 250,000 stars) randomly drawn from the sample shown in the left panel. Compared to the left panel, there are some artifacts for the younger populations (τ < 9 Gyr) due to the smaller sample size, but this will not change the conclusion.