Collaboration meeting in Warsaw
The Old Milky collaboration meets between 17-21 of March at CAMK in Warsaw.
In March 2025, the Old Milky Way collaboration is meeting in person. The team members from Heidelberg, Prof. Norbert Christlieb
and Dr. Susmitha Antony, are visiting CAMK/PAN for a week of discussions and hands on work.
In addition, five other researchers with experience in the analysis of metal-poor stars and/or involved in the 4MOST and
CUBES project will visit and join the meeting. Together, the team will review different methods to analyse spectra of metal-poor
stars, discuss what is missing to achieve accurate analysis of metal-poor stars, and establish the steps for the contribution of the OLD-MW project
to be useful for the 4MOST and CUBES spectrographs. The first two days of the meeting will be dedicated to presentations and discussions. The
next three days will be mostly used for hands on work.
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We are hiring!
One postdoctoral position is available to join the team and work on a comprehensive spectroscopic study of metal-poor
stars. Deadline is December 6th, 2024.
The successful applicant will join the team and work on the project "The old Milky Way: a holistic approach to an accurate analysis
of metal-poor stars" funded by an OPUS-LAP grant of the Polish National Science Center, nr 2022/47/I/ST9/02358. The project is an
international collaboration with a team lead by Prof. Norbert Christlieb of the Center for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
The overall project aim is to develop a holistic analysis methodology that can be applied to spectra of metal-poor
stars obtained by different instruments and return results that are on a single, consistent scale. The results will be used for a meticulous
study of the properties of the first nucleosynthesis sources of stellar origin in the Universe and to reconstruct the early chemical
evolution of our Galaxy.
The position will focus on the analysis of low-resolution spectra and investigate machine learning methods that can be applied to the
analysis of stellar spectra. This postdoc may also collaborate on work related to 4MOST. Solid experience in some of the following topics
would be assets: machine learning applied to the analysis of stellar spectra, Galactic archaeology, stellar spectroscopy.
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New team member!
Dr. Deepak is a new post-doc joining the SAGA team to work on the international collaboration funded by the NCN OPUS/LAP project
"The Old Milky Way: a holistic approach to an accurate analysis of metal-poor stars".
Deepak has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, India, awarded by the Pondicherry
University under an agreement between IIA and the University. Deepak has experience using results from large stellar surveys, like GALAH, LAMOST,
and Gaia, and in using such data to determine stellar properties like kinematics, orbits, masses, and ages. He has several works on
the topic of Li-rich giants and has also worked on stellar substructures in the Galactic disc and halo. He is joining as a post-doc in
the new OPUS/LAP project that is a collaboration with the group of Norbert Christlieb in Heidelberg, Germany. His work will mainly
concern the analysis and simulation of (space- and ground-based) flux-calibrated spectra of metal-poor stars, particularly in
connection to the CUBES spectrograph.
The "Old Milky Way" project is funded by the National Science Centre, Poland under the OPUS call in the Weave programme,
grant number 2022/47/I/ST9/02358.