Galactic Archaeology: a Challenge for the Cold Dark Matter Paradigm

我们的建议利用了澳大利亚在开展广域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学方面的知识领先地位。爱马仕是新的英澳望远镜仪器，将保持澳大利亚在一个领域的竞争力，将在未来十年爆炸。爱马仕将提供一个革命性的数据集，与欧洲航天局耗资数十亿美元的GAIA使命和即将上线的另一个澳大利亚光学设施SkyMapper有着惊人的协同作用。我们的提案旨在利用澳大利亚对爱马仕和SkyMapper以及现有澳大利亚设施AAOmega的投资，从我们和其他爱马仕/SkyMapper用户的投资中获得最大的科学价值。

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.