U.S.-U.K. Cooperative Research: Galactic Chemistry, Structure and Kinematics: Towards an Understanding of the Galaxy

美英合作研究：银河系化学、结构和运动学：了解银河系

• 批准号: 9113306
• 负责人: Rosemary Wyse
• 金额: $ 1.35万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-03-01 至 1997-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9113306&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; U.K.; Cooperative; Research; Galactic

This three-year award supports collaborative research between Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Johns Hopkins University, and Gerard Gilmore, the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. The objectives are to help determine the characteristics, structure and chemical evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. The study of galaxy formation is crucial to obtaining knowledge about the physics of the origin of structure in the Universe and to an understanding of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way remains the ideal galaxy for this study because of its proximity and the abundance of available, detailed data. These data are essential for the testing and development of theories on galaxy formation and for an understanding of the origins and different structure of other galaxies. The project involves the acquisition and analysis of a very large number of stellar spectra and the development of a theoretical model in collaboration with British astronomer Gerard Gilmore. It is a well-balanced collaboration enhanced by the complementary expertise of the investigators and their respective backgrounds in theory and observational astronomy.

这一为期三年的奖项支持约翰·霍普金斯大学罗斯玛丽·F·G·怀斯和英国剑桥大学天文研究所杰拉德·吉尔摩之间的合作研究。目标是帮助确定银河系的特征、结构和化学演化。对星系形成的研究对于获得关于宇宙结构起源的物理知识以及对我们银河系的理解至关重要。银河系仍然是这项研究的理想星系，因为它离我们很近，而且有丰富的可用详细数据。这些数据对于检验和发展星系形成理论以及了解其他星系的起源和不同结构是必不可少的。该项目涉及获取和分析非常大量的恒星光谱，并与英国天文学家杰拉德·吉尔摩合作开发理论模型。这是一个平衡良好的合作，通过研究人员的互补专业知识以及他们各自在理论和观测天文学方面的背景而得到加强。