Milky Way and Local Group Stars
Research Staff
Graduate Students
Our research interests span the planetary to Local Group scales, including dark matter, dwarf galaxies, the Milky Way, star clusters, cool stars, exo-planets, massive stars and supernovae. We make use of a variety of theoretical and observational tools, and many international ground- and space-based telescopes. The previous incarnation of the Group's web pages can be found here: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/research/stellarpops/
Andromeda and its Satellites
Coming soon.
Dwarf Galaxies
Dwarf galaxy research at the IoA ranges from observational studies to search for and classifying new dwarf galaxies to theoretical work on the distribution of dark matter within these systems.
Hipparcos Interactive
Hipparcos Interactive
The Hipparcos data access software provides tools to interrogate and display the Hipparcos data from overall statistics to the solution details for individual stars.
Milky Way Galaxy
Milky Way research at the IoA involves reconstructing the assembly history of the Galaxy through observational work involving large scale surveys and theoritical studies with numerical simulations and galactic dynamics.
Star Clusters
Star clusters research at the IoA ranges from observational studies on resolved clusters in the Local Group and unresolved super-star cluster in external galaxies to theoretical and numerical work on their dynamical evolution.
Tidal Streams
Coming Soon
Variable Universe
Variable stars, RR Lyrae, transients, supernovae, microlensing events.
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