Nominator's project description
| Dr. Stephane Charlot is known world-wide for his work relating galaxy spectra to the ages, chemical compositions and gas environments of the stars from which the galaxy is made. His models are universally used to infer the physical properties of distant galaxies from the observed spectra which telescopes are able to record. At the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics Dr. Charlot's group is going to develop models to extract the most precise physical information possible from each of the one million galaxy spectra currently being obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, by far the largest such survey ever undertaken. |
