Siam Physics Congress 2017

Session

Plenary Talk I

24 May 2017, 10:15

Grand Ballroom

412. The Milky Way as a cosmological laboratory

Prof. Matthias Steinmetz (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

24/05/2017, 10:15

Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology

Plenary Talk

The Milky Way is the galaxy we can dissolve in its indivudual constituents and thus study in most detail. The abundances of individual chemical elements in stars reflect the chemical composition of the gas at the location and time of their formation. The combined stellar record of the Galaxy can thus be used to analyze its resolved star formation history. The motions of the Galaxy’s stars can...