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  1. The High Redshift Universe Next Door (Speaker: Joshua Simon)

    Abstract: The dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way are extremely valuable laboratories for studying the nature of dark ... After reviewing the revolution in our understanding of the Milky Way's satellite population that resulted from the Sloan Digital Sky ...

    Anonymous - 2013-10-04 22:23

  2. HSTPROMO: Local Group Dynamics from HST Proper Motions (Speaker: Roeland van der Marel)

    ... black holes; the structure and shape of the Milky Way halo from PM measurements of stars in the distant metal-poor halo and the Sagittarius Stream; the mass of the Milky Way from PM measurements of the distant satellite Leo I and other dwarf ...

    Anonymous - 2013-10-06 07:27

  3. Schlaufman, Kevin C.

    ... and planet formation as well as halo substructure and Milky Way formation. I've also worked at the National Optical Astronomy ... 602 astro-ph/1006.2851 “Insight Into the Formation of the Milky Way Through Cold Halo Substructure. III. Statistical Chemical Tagging in ...

    Anonymous - 2013-03-19 23:02

  4. Griffen, Brendan

    ... Prof. Anna Frebel's group to study the formation of the Milky Way, its progenitors and orbiting companions. First Name:  ... to use computing clusters to study the formation of the Milky Way galaxy and its orbiting companions (e.g. dwarf galaxies). These ...

    Anonymous - 2013-08-23 19:10

  5. Su, Meng

    ... observations to study diffuse emission from the Milky Way, indirect detection of dark matter, cosmic ray acceleration and ...

    Anonymous - 2013-02-23 22:49

  6. Anna Frebel receives NSF CAREER Award

    ... for her proposal, "The origin of the metal-poor halo of the Milky Way." These highly selective grants are given to junior faculty members ... metal-poor stars as tracers of the accretion history of the Milky Way halo. Utilizing the Australian SkyMapper Telescope, Frebel will ...

    siteadmin - 2013-04-17 13:23

  7. Weinberg, Nevin

    ... L64 (2008) "Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits", A. M. Ghez, ...

    Anonymous - 2013-02-23 22:49

  8. Jacobson, Heather R.

    ... trace the chemical evolution of different components of the Milky Way. Open clusters span a wide range of ages and are found throughout the ... analysis of metal-poor stars to trace the formation of the Milky Way halo as well as the signatures of the first stars that formed in the ...

    Anonymous - 2013-08-23 19:11

  9. Searching for solar systems like our own

    ... have identified hundreds of exoplanetary systems in the Milky Way. Winn has found that many of these systems display very different ... scientists identify more than 2,000 potential planets in the Milky Way galaxy; there are estimates that billions more Earth-like planets may ...

    siteadmin - 2013-04-10 16:21

  10. Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

    ... telescope that surveys more than 160,000 stars in the Milky Way. The observatory records the brightness of each star at regular ...

    siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09