Galactic Archaeology: Current Surveys
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2016-04-19 v1
Abstract
I present an overview of the science goals and achievements of ongoing spectroscopic surveys of individual stars in the nearby Universe. I include a brief discussion of the development of the field of Galactic Archaeology - using the fossil record in old stars nearby to infer how our Galaxy evolved and place the Milky Way in cosmological context.
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@article{arxiv.1604.04745,
title = {Galactic Archaeology: Current Surveys},
author = {Rosemary F. G. Wyse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04745},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
14 pages, 5 figures. Invited review, proceedings of the conference 'Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade' held in La Palma, March 2015, to be published in ASP Conference Series (editors Ian Skillen, Marc Balcells & Scott Trager)