Sentences with phrase «galah survey»
The GALAH survey's data release is timed to coincide with the huge release of data on 25 April from the European Gaia satellite, which has mapped more than 1.6 billion stars in the Milky Way, making it by far the biggest and most accurate atlas of the night sky to date.
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Professor Tomaz Zwitter (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) said today's results from the GALAH survey would be crucial to interpreting the results from Gaia: «The accuracy of the velocities that we are achieving with GALAH is unprecedented for such a large survey.»
It was conceived more than a decade ago as a way to unravel the history of our Milky Way galaxy; the HERMES instrument was designed and built by the AAO specifically for the GALAH survey.
The GALAH survey used the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory's (AAO) 3.9 - metre Anglo - Australian Telescope near Coonabarabran, NSW, to collect spectra for the 340,000 stars.
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This is a major announcement from an ambitious Galactic Archaeology survey, called GALAH, launched in late 2013 as part of a quest to uncover the formulation and evolution of galaxies.
«No other survey has been able to measure as many elements for as many stars as GALAH,» said Dr Gayandhi De Silva, of the University of Sydney and AAO, the HERMES instrument scientist who oversaw the groups working on today's major data release.
A Sydney - led international group of astronomers has revealed the «DNA» of more than 340,000 stars in the first major data release from the Galactic Archaeology survey GALAH for clues about how galaxies formed and evolved.
By the time the survey draws to a close, GALAH is expected to have analyzed the light of a million stars.
The treasure trove of stellar data was harvested as part of the Galactic Archaeology survey (GALAH), which was launched in 2013 with the goal of revealing how galaxies such as our own Milky Way come to form and evolve.