Galactic Archaeology: a Challenge for the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm

我们的建议利用了澳大利亚在进行大范围调查方面的技术领先地位，以及澳大利亚在恒星天文学和银河系考古方面的智力领先地位。爱马仕是新的英澳望远镜设备，它将使澳大利亚人在这个将在未来十年爆炸性增长的领域保持竞争力。爱马仕将提供一个革命性的数据集，与欧洲航天局耗资10亿美元的GAIA任务以及即将上线的另一家澳大利亚光学设施SkyMapper具有惊人的协同效应。我们的计划旨在利用澳大利亚对Hermes和SkyMapper以及现有澳大利亚设施AAOmega的投资，从我们和其他Hermes/SkyMapper用户的这项投资中获得最大数量的科学成果。

Our proposal capitalizes on Australia's technological leadership in carrying out wide-field surveys, and on Australia's intellectual leadership in stellar astronomy and galactic archaeology. HERMES is the new Anglo-Australian Telescope instrument that will keep Australians competitive in a field that is set to explode in the coming decade. HERMES will provide a revolutionary dataset that has a stunning synergy with the European Space Agency's billion-dollar GAIA mission and with SkyMapper, the other Australian optical facility soon to come on line. Our proposal aims to leverage the Australian investment in HERMES and SkyMapper and in the existing Australian facility AAOmega to derive the maximum amount of science from this investment, both by us and other HERMES/SkyMapper users.