MW-DISK

How the Milky Way Built Its Disk

Coordinatore	MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	2˙421˙959 €
EC contributo	2˙421˙959 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2012-ADG_20120216
Funding Scheme	ERC-AG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-05-01   -   2018-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.  Organization address address: Hofgartenstrasse 8 city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80539 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Manuela Cognome: Reifke Email: send email Telefono: +49 6221 528 295 Fax: +49 6221 528 295	DE (MUENCHEN)	hostInstitution	2˙421˙959.50
2	MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.  Organization address address: Hofgartenstrasse 8 city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80539 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Hans-Walter Cognome: Rix Email: send email Telefono: +49 6221 528211 Fax: +49 6221 528339	DE (MUENCHEN)	hostInstitution	2˙421˙959.50

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Our Milky Way is a very typical galaxy, yet our position within it makes it a unique object of study: star-by-star we can obtain 3D positions, 3D velocities and chemical abundances. This wealth of information about our Galaxy’s stellar body holds the key to understanding how disk galaxies form and how dark matter acts on the scales of galaxies. Ongoing surveys have recently hundred-folded the number of stars with good distance estimates, radial and transverse velocities and abundance estimates; and this only forebodes the data wealth expected from ESA’s Gaia mission. Yet, practical approaches to extract the enormous astrophysical information content of these data have been sorely underdeveloped. Just within the last year, the PI and his collaborators have pioneered how to construct rigorously both mass density and kinematic maps of the Milky Way's stellar disk from existing spectroscopic surveys. It is proposed here to unleash the full potential of this approach.

This proposal builds on the PI's unique track record encompassing both extensive survey data analysis and detailed dynamical modeling, combined with his role in proprietary key data sets for this project. Focusing a group of experienced post-docs and PhD students for five years on these challenges will bring the critical mass in one single place to implementing such a comprehensive data/modeling machinery. The first years of the project will focus on the technique development and applications to ground-based data. The results will tell us how the Galaxy's disk was built and shaped, and will map dark matter in the inner parts of the MW. Such an analysis machinery is also indispensable for capitalizing (astrophysically) on the catalogs that the Gaia mission will provide.'