We have a unique opportunity to make a definitive step forward and conclusively reconstruct the life of a typical (super) Milky-Way galaxy, from its initial clumpy gas-rich phase to its (inevitable?) death through quenching. Astronomy is indeed entering the big data era. Big-data spectro-photometric surveys such as LSST, EUCLID, WFIRST, JWST will be on sky in 2-5 years from now. While most emphasis is being put on the cosmology aspects, invaluable information on the star-formation and assembly histories of billions of galaxies across 80% of the cosmic time will be encoded in these datasets. Extracting and interpreting this information is a new challenge for which no valid solution has been provided yet. ASTROBRAIN is thus motivated by the evidence that new techniques need to be invented now to fully benefit from these datasets and advance in our knowledge of galaxy formation.
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In force date
Call year
2018
Investigator
Marc
Huertas-Portocarrero Company
Financial institution
Financing subprogram
Amount granted to the IAC Consortium
108.900,00 €
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