Penn State Astronomy and Astrophysics: Building a unified model of the Milky Way galaxy using astrostatistics
Date: Monday, January 27
Time: 12:45 p.m.
Location: Davey Lab 538
In the Milky Way (MW), billion-star observations have made it possible to study the complex interplay between processes that build disk galaxies. The Sun’s position in the Galactic disk allows us to observe a large number of stars. However, the data come from a variety of surveys, each providing only a limited view of the physical processes underlying galaxy evolution. This heterogeneity and incompleteness of the data make it challenging to model the Milky Way as a whole.
In this talk, Aarya Patil (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy/LSST Discovery Alliance
Catalyst Fellow) presents an innovative statistical and computational methodologies she has developed to
address this challenge.