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Award Abstract # 0407293
Structure of the Milky Way from Kinematical Databases

NSF Org: AST
Division Of Astronomical Sciences
Recipient:
Initial Amendment Date: June 9, 2004
Latest Amendment Date: August 22, 2007
Award Number: 0407293
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Brian M. Patten
AST  Division Of Astronomical Sciences
MPS  Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: July 1, 2004
End Date: June 30, 2008 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $496,622.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2004 = $168,141.00
FY 2005 = $168,141.00
FY 2006 = $160,340.00
History of Investigator:
  • William Van Altena (Principal Investigator)
     vanalten@astro.yale.edu
  • Terrence Girard (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Carlos Lopez (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Vladimir Korchagin (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Dana Casetti (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Yale Southern Observatory, Inc.
 Office of Sponsored Projects
 NEW HAVEN
 CT  US  06520-8327
(203)785-4689
Sponsor Congressional District: 03
Primary Place of Performance: Yale Southern Observatory, Inc.
 Office of Sponsored Projects
 NEW HAVEN
 CT  US  06520-8327
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:		 03
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): YHELCSHF4AA7
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): GALACTIC ASTRONOMY PROGRAM
Primary Program Source: app-0104 
app-0105 
app-0106 
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, 1207, OTHR
Program Element Code(s): 121600
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

Structure of the Milky Way from Kinematical Databases

ABSTRACT

AST 0407293 van Altena

Dr. William van Altena, at the Yale Southern Observatory, Inc., will initiate a program to use the Southern Proper Motion (SPM) Survey to investigate the thick disk and halo of the Milky Way. The goal for this research is to produce interim catalogs of proper motions, while collection and reduction of data that will form the second epoch for the SPM continues. The SPM program will provide absolute proper motions and broadband photometry for approximately 100 million stars in the southern sky. The recently completed DENIS and 2MASS surveys provide infrared photometry for essentially all of the SPM stars. Through ongoing efforts to collect spectra of stars in the halo and thick disk, and a collaboration with the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) in Australia, about 15 million of the SPM stars will have determinations of radial velocities and chemical abundances. The PI will establish an Internet-accessible database for use by the astronomical community. It will contain the 100 million SPM absolute proper motions, as well as photometry, spectroscopy, and radial velocities for stars in common with the SPM. This database will provide the "raw material" for numerous research programs.

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Altmann, M., Mendez, R. A., van Altena, W. F., Korchagin, V., & Ruiz, M. T. "Probing Galactic structure with MUSYC" Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica , v.26 , 2006 , p.64
Carlin, J. L.; Majewski, S. R.; Casetti-Dinescu, D. I.; & Girard, T. M. "Preliminary porper motion analysis of the Carina dwarf spheroidal" IAU Symposium 248: A Giant Step: from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry , v.248 , 2008 , p.492
Carraro, G., van Altena, W. F., Moni Bidin, C., Girard, T., Mendez, R., Dinescu, D., Korchagin, V. "A study of the Thick disk of the Galaxy in the direction of the South Galactic Pole in the framework of the Southern Proper Motion Program" American Astronomical Society Meeting , v.207 , 2005 , p.131.06
Carraro, G.; Dinescu, D. I.; Girard, T. M.; van Altena, W. F. "Probing the nature of possible open cluster remnants with the Southern Proper Motion Program" Astronomy and Astrophysics , v.433 , 2005 , p.143
Casetti-Dinescu, D. I.; Carlin, J. L.; Girard, T. M.; Majewski, S. R.; Penarrubia, J.; & Patterson, R. J. "Kinematics of Stars in Kapteyn Selected Area 71: Sampling The Monoceros and Sagittarius Tidal Streams" Astronomical Journal , v.135 , 2008 , p.2013
Casetti-Dinescu, D. I.; Girard, T. M., Herrera, D.; van Altena, W. F.; Lopez, C. E.; & Castillo, D. J. "Space Velocities of Southern Globular Clusters V. A Low Galactic Latitude Sample" Astronomical Journal , v.134 , 2007 , p.195
Casetti-Dinescu, D. I.; Majewski, S. R.; Girard, T. M.; Carlin, J. L.; van Altena, W. F.; Patterson, R. J.; and Law, D. R. "A Deep Proper-Motion Survey in Kapteyn Selected Areas. I. Survey Description and First Results for Stars in the Tidal Tail of Sagittarius and in the Monoceros Ring" Astronomical Journal , v.132 , 2006 , p.2082
Dinescu, D. I., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., and Lopez, C. E. "Absolute Proper Motion of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and of the Outer Bulge from SPM3" Astrophysical Journal Letters , v.618 , 2005 , p.L25
Dinescu, D. I., Martinez-Delgado, D., Girard, T. M., Penarrubia, J., Rix, H-W., Butler, D., and van Altena, W. F. "Absolute Proper Motion of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy Candidate" Astrophysical Journal Letters , v.631 , 2005 , p.L49
Dinescu, Dana I.; Girard, Terrence M.; van Altena, William F. "Absolute Proper Motion of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy and of the Outer Regions of the Milky Way Bulge" Astrophysical Journal Letters , v.618L , 2005 , p.25
Girard, T. M. "Maintenance and densification: current proper-motion catalogs" IAU Symposium 248: A Giant Step: from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry , v.248 , 2008 , p.303
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