Space Science and Astronomy: Dissecting the Galaxy with High Resolution Multi-Object Echelle Spectrograph (HERMES) II: Decisive Observations

长期以来，澳大利亚一直是世界上大视场天文测量的领导者，正在为英澳望远镜建造的新的高分辨率多物体阶梯光谱仪（爱马仕）将加强这一领导地位。通过结合澳大利亚的技术和科学进步，我们与爱马仕进行的调查将使我们能够以前所未有的细节研究星系的形成和恒星天体物理学。爱马仕与另一个澳大利亚天文观测项目“天空测绘仪”，以及与耗资10亿美元的欧洲银河系研究空间飞行使命“盖亚”之间有着强大的协同作用;因此，爱马仕将促进国家和国际研究合作。在这个建议中，我们为最大限度地提高爱马仕的科学回报奠定了观测基础。

Australia has long been a world leader in wide-field astronomical surveys, and the new High Resolution Multi-Object Echelle Spectrograph (HERMES) being built for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) will enhance that leadership position. Through a combination of Australian technological and scientific advances, the surveys we conduct with HERMES will allow us to study galaxy formation and stellar astrophysics in unprecedented detail. There are powerful synergies between HERMES and Skymapper, another Australian astronomical survey, as well as with Gaia, the billion-dollar European space mission for studying the Galaxy; HERMES will thus promote both national and international research collaboration. In this proposal we lay the observational groundwork for maximising the scientific return from HERMES.