Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160100637
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
New Statistical Techniques for Galactic Archaeology. This project aims to develop methods that will enable us to exploit new astronomical data. A revolution is under way in stellar astronomy, with new space satellites and Australian survey instruments about to reveal the composition of millions of stars. These data hold the promise of disentangling the origin of our galaxy through identification of star-forming groups that have long ago dispersed into our galaxy. We can also learn about the nuclear and stellar processes that were active in long-dead stars, and hence explain why the Universe is the way it is. This project aims to extend the powerful Minimum Message Length method, never before used in astronomy, to handle this data. This would put us in a unique position to extract new knowledge from the data that will arrive in the next one to five years.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2016
End Date: 08-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $344,100.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Pattern Recognition and Data Mining | Galactic Astronomy
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences |
