Pristupačnost
We invite you to the seminar of the Physics Department which will be held in Seminar room F-201 of the Physics Department starting at 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 20th.
prof. dr. Maria-Rosa Cioni, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Germany
A modern view of the Magellanic Clouds
Abstract:
The Magellanic Clouds are our nearest neighbouring galaxies interacting with each other and with the Milky Way. They represent an early stage of a minor merger event. They have been surveyed across the wavelength spectrum for many decades, but there are still many things to understand about them. In this presentation, I will focus on near-infrared observations from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) highlighting the most recent results. This is a photometric large-scale project that started at ESO in 2009 and that will be completed within the next few years. The main goals are to recover the star formation history and the three-dimensional geometry of the system with unprecedented spatial accuracy, but the data have a wide range of applications that extend to distant quasars. I will also present these investigations in the context of future projects.