Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100656

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE190100656

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

The stars that should not exist. This project aims to explain the origin of stars with a chemical composition that is so peculiar that they cannot be explained by any theory of how stars evolve or how elements are created. Their very existence represents fundamental problems in astrophysics. This project proposes a novel method to distinguish peculiarity of up to 20 million stars, mostly observed from Australia. Expected outcomes include new theories to explain two of the most puzzling kinds of peculiar stars, discoveries of new kinds of anomalous stars, and discoveries of ancient or metal-free stars that should not exist. The project is expected to generate social benefit, as well as long-term economic benefits by inspiring and training the next generation of data analysts, programmers, engineers, teachers, and scientists. It may also generate economic benefits from a generalised method for outlier detection in high-dimensional datasets.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 28-08-2019

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $364,259.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning | Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems

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