Cosmic origins: How do galaxies build chemical complexity over cosmic time?

宇宙起源：星系如何在宇宙时间内形成化学复杂性？

• 批准号: FT150100333
• 负责人: Prof Richard McDermid
• 金额: $ 45.83万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-06-13 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT150100333
• 关键词: Cosmic; origins; How; do; galaxies

This project aims to answer questions of how the chemical complexity required to form stars, planets and life arose through cosmic history. Galaxies are the chemical factories of the Universe. Over the life of the cosmos, they have built reservoirs of the elements required to make stars and planets. Yet we have no complete theory of how this process unfolds or how different galaxy types form. By using advanced instrumentation and developing innovative computational techniques, this project aims to use the motions and chemistry of stars to map the history of galaxies in a new way. This would establish where and when stars formed in different galaxies, revealing the importance of black holes, dark matter, galaxy collisions and local environment in the build-up of chemical complexity in our Universe.

该项目旨在回答形成恒星，行星和生命所需的化学复杂性如何通过宇宙历史产生的问题。星系是宇宙的化学工厂。在宇宙的生命中，他们已经建立了制造恒星和行星所需的元素库。然而，我们还没有完整的理论来解释这个过程是如何展开的，或者不同的星系类型是如何形成的。通过使用先进的仪器和开发创新的计算技术，该项目旨在利用恒星的运动和化学以新的方式绘制星系的历史。这将确定恒星在不同星系中形成的时间和地点，揭示黑洞，暗物质，星系碰撞和局部环境在我们宇宙化学复杂性积累中的重要性。