ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100554

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT140100554

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Revealing the history of the Milky Way Galaxy through precision stellar spectroscopy. How did the Milky Way Galaxy form? The answer to this fundamental question lies in the chemical compositions of stars. Enormous investments by the Australian and international community into state-of-the-art facilities and surveys will yield a 1 million star sample for chemical analysis. To fully harvest the information from those surveys requires stellar chemical composition measurements of the highest possible precision. This project aims to use recently pioneered analysis techniques that have led the field of chemical abundance measurements in stars to the unprecedented precision level of 2 per cent (a five-fold improvement) to chart the evolution of our Galaxy over cosmic time.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $674,404.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

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

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Galactic Astronomy | Stellar Astronomy and Planetary Systems

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