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

这个为期三年的奖项支持约翰霍普金斯大学的Rosemary F. G. Wyse和英国剑桥大学天文研究所的Gerard Gilmore的合作研究。目的是帮助确定银河系的特征、结构和化学演化。星系形成的研究对于获得关于宇宙结构起源的物理学知识和理解我们的银河系至关重要。银河系仍然是这项研究的理想星系，因为它离我们很近，而且有丰富的可用的详细数据。这些数据对于测试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至关重要。该项目包括获取和分析大量恒星光谱，并与英国天文学家杰拉德·吉尔摩（Gerard Gilmore）合作建立理论模型。这是一种平衡良好的合作，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。

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.