Stellar populations in Globular Clusters: insights in to Galaxy assembly

这个项目旨在增进我们对球状星团的了解。对球状星团中新发现的几代恒星的研究构成了恒星和银河系天体物理学的现代分支。该项目计划提供球状星团中存在的多个恒星群的化学特征，并探索这些古老恒星系统的性质及其与矮小星系的可能联系。这项研究的结果可能有助于我们理解银河系的形成机制，以及球状星团对星系晕组装的贡献，并可能为“失踪卫星问题”--与大爆炸模型的预测相比，缺乏低质量星系--提供意想不到的解决方案。

This project aims to advance our knowledge of globular clusters. The study of the newly discovered generations of stars in globular clusters constitutes a modern branch of stellar and galactic astrophysics. The project plans to provide a chemical characterisation of the multiple stellar populations present in globular clusters, and explore the nature of these ancient stellar systems and their possible connection with dwarf galaxies. The outcome of this research may help us understand the formation mechanisms of the Milky Way and the contribution of globular clusters to the galactic halo assembly, and may open unexpected solutions for the ‘missing satellites problem’ – the lack of low-mass galaxies compared to the predictions of the Big Bang model.