ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100794

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT140100794

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Ancient stars: the origin of elements. The story of the origin of the elements fascinates mankind and touches many branches of science. This project combines new stellar population models of the oldest stars with new data from the Australian million-star GALactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey to address basic astrophysical problems: mixing in stars, mass transfer in binary stars and measurement of the masses of the first stars. Knowing how these ancient stars behave is crucial to understanding element production in the early Universe, both in our Milky Way and distant galaxies. By statistically comparing new models to the GALAH data, this project aims to measure the masses of the oldest galactic stars directly impacting branches of astrophysics from planets to galaxies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 07-2014

End Date: 12-2018

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $717,204.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Applied Statistics | Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Galactic Astronomy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences |

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