Vasily Belokurov
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, Royaume-Uni)
Webinaire, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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| « The transformation of the Milky Way » |
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Vasily Belokurov |
| With its most recent data releases, European Space Agency’s Gaia mission revealed the fossilised record of a dramatic - and long suspected - accretion event in the distant past of our Galaxy. This head-on collision with a massive dwarf galaxy was a turning point in the evolution of the Milky Way and unleashed a series of transformations that forever changed the Galaxy. This unprecedented metamorphosis is the focus of this talk. I will discuss the time, the geometry and the kinematics of the interaction, and elucidate the response of the Milky Way to the massive intruder. |
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vendredi 2 avril 2021 - 11:00 Webinaire, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
| Page web du séminaire / Seminar's webpage |