Essays about: "Gaia mission"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Gaia mission.

  1. 1. The tangled Warp of the Milky Way

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Astrofysik; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen

    Author : Viktor Hrannar Jónsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Galaxy: structure; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: evolution; Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : Context: The Milky Way disc, like the discs of many other spiral galaxies, has been shown to be warped. The growing astrometric data set for stars produced by the Gaia mission allows for more detailed studies of the stellar disc's warp. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Metallicity Structure of the Milky Way Halo II : Characterising the distant halo substructure

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Observationell astrofysik

    Author : Amanda Byström; [2022]
    Keywords : Milky Way; Galactic archaeology; halo; photometric metallicities; stellar catalogue; Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage; Sagittarius; Pristine survey; metallicity; Gaia mission;

    Abstract : The Milky Way galaxy, like all spiral galaxies, is surrounded by a roughly spherical distribution of stars called the halo. The halo was largely formed when the galaxy merged with smaller galaxies. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Metallicity Structure of the Milky Way halo I : Creating a stellar catalogue of the distant halo’s red giants

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Observationell astrofysik

    Author : Amanda Byström; [2021]
    Keywords : Milky Way; Galactic archaeology; halo; photometric metallicities; stellar catalogue; giant stars; distance calculations; Pristine survey; Gaia mission; metallicity distribution;

    Abstract : The Milky Way's halo is an approximately spherical distribution of stars surrounding the Galaxy that carries the history of the Milky Way. The outer halo is a Galactic region with long dynamical timescales largely built up by accreted material. READ MORE

  5. 4. Interactive out-of-core rendering and filtering of one billion stars measured by the ESA Gaia mission

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Medie- och Informationsteknik; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakulteten

    Author : Adam Alsegård; [2018]
    Keywords : out-of-core rendering; large-scale visualization; hierarchical octree; GPU streaming; realtime filtering.;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to visualize the 1.7 billion stars released by the European Space Agency, as the second data release (DR2) of their Gaia mission, in the open source software OpenSpace with interactive framerates and also to be able to filter the data in real-time. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Galactic thick disk: a stellar population in its own right?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Observationell astrofysik

    Author : Vlad Rastau; [2017]
    Keywords : High resolution spectroscopy; stellar atmospheres; Galactic stellar populations;

    Abstract : The Galactic disk is home of many billion stars, one of which isour Sun. The stellar population of which the Sun is a member residesin the vertically thin spiral structure of the disk. There is a seconddisk population, the so-called thick disk, that has somewhat dierentspatial, kinematic and chemical properties as compared to the thindisk. READ MORE