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AST Division Of Astronomical Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | May 7, 1999 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | May 7, 1999 |
| Award Number: | 9900582 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Vernon Pankonin
AST Division Of Astronomical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Start Date: | May 15, 1999 |
| End Date: | April 30, 2002 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $84,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $84,000.00 |
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607 Marion Place Palo Alto CA US 94301-4251 (650)321-1281 |
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607 Marion Place Palo Alto CA US 94301-4251 |
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| NSF Program(s): | GALACTIC ASTRONOMY PROGRAM |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
Peterson, Ruth
Astrophysical Advances
AST-9900582
Drs. Peterson, of Astrophysical Advances, and Terndrup, at the Ohio State University, will carry out a collaborative project to survey the Galactic bulge for hot stars, those with temperatures in excess of 20,000 K, that are thought to be the source of the excess Ultraviolet light found in old, metal-rich extragalactic systems. These stars have presented a puzzle, since such stars are not found in the metal-rich systems of globular clusters in our galaxy, yet are apparently common in elliptical galaxies and the bulges of other spiral galaxies. This photometric and spectroscopic survey will take a complete census of several fields in the bulge of our galaxy, where preliminary work has uncovered a statistically significant sample of these hot stars, and where large enough samples of a metal-rich population can be obtained to identify stars in short-lived phases of stellar evolution. The survey will identify the numbers of stars in each relevant evolutionary phase and derive metallicities for stars cool enough to be unaffected by diffusion, in several fields at varying distances from the Galactic center.
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