'Stellar halo' presentation slideshows

Galaxy Formation in a ? Cold Dark Matter Universe

749 views • 62 slides

KIAA Lectures Beijing, July 2010 Ken Freeman, RSAA, ANU

KIAA Lectures Beijing, July 2010 Ken Freeman, RSAA, ANU. Lecture 1: Introduction. What does our Galaxy look like ?. Near infrared image from COBE/DIRBE - dust is transparent in near-IR. NGC 891: our Galaxy probably looks much like this in visible light.

553 views • 44 slides

Gaia ITNG2013 School, Tenerife Ken Freeman, Lecture 4: the stellar halo

Gaia ITNG2013 School, Tenerife Ken Freeman, Lecture 4: the stellar halo. September 2013. rapidly rotating disk & thick disk. slowly rotating halo. |Z max | < 2 kpc.

449 views • 34 slides

Dynamical signatures of mergers

Dynamical signatures of mergers. Amina Helmi. Dynamical signatures of mergers. In collaboration with @Groningen: Facundo Gomez , Maarten Breddels, Laura Sales, Yang-Shyang Li elsewhere: Andrew Cooper, Michelle Wilson , Alvaro Villalobos, Simon White, Anthony Brown, Heather Morrison.

436 views • 34 slides

Halo White Dwarf Controversy

Halo White Dwarf Controversy. Ben R. Oppenheimer UC-Berkeley Nigel Hambly, Andrew Digby University of Edinburgh Simon Hodgkin Cambridge University Didier Saumon Vanderbilt University. Painting by Lynette Cook. Discovery: Hambly et al. (1997). IR Spectrum: Hodgkin et al. (2000).

386 views • 28 slides

Unveiling the formation of the Galactic disks and Andromeda halo with WFMOS

Unveiling the formation of the Galactic disks and Andromeda halo with WFMOS. Masashi Chiba (Tohoku University, Sendai). Galactic Archaeology. thick disk. thin disk. bulge. stellar halo. Fossil records in Galaxy formation Near-field Cosmology. Galaxy formation: tracing assembly history.

275 views • 27 slides

Exploring the origin of the stellar halo of the Milky Way

Exploring the origin of the stellar halo of the Milky Way. Eric Bell Ann Arbor 29 July 2009. Stellar halo : fossil record of assembly?. Dwarf galaxies are disrupting and contributing to the stellar halo 1% of stellar mass. Bullock & Johnston 2005

386 views • 19 slides

Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies

317 views • 19 slides

Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies

292 views • 19 slides

Modelling the Stellar Populations of The Milky Way and Andromeda

Modelling the Stellar Populations of The Milky Way and Andromeda. Collaborators: Theory: Observations: Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) Annette Ferguson (Edinburgh) Brant Robertson (Chicago) Puragra Guhathakurta (Santa Cruz) James Bullock (Irvine) Karrie Gilbert (Santa Cruz) .

300 views • 17 slides

The Dual Origin of a Simulated Milky Way Halo

The Dual Origin of a Simulated Milky Way Halo Adi Zolotov (N.Y.U.), Beth Willman (Haverford), Fabio Governato, Chris Brook (University of Washington, Seattle), Alyson Brooks (CalTech).

76 views • 1 slides