After a week of battling jet-lag, it's time to get back to some science. And this week, a new paper from the PAndAS , from Heidelberg based researcher, Michelle Collins . The target here is dwarf galaxies . Here's one from wikipedia. There's lots of dwarf galaxies out there in the Universe. In fact, in terms of number, they represent the dominant galaxies out there, but they are much smaller than our own Milky Way, so they don't have the dominant mass. Don't believe me? Well, my colleague, Alan McConnachie , recently compiled the most comprehensive compilation of the galaxies within our Local Group ; you can read the details here. So, we have three large galaxies, the Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulum , and then almost 100 smaller galaxies, a sea of dwarf galaxies. Now, you might think that dwarfs are simple things, just a billion or so stars living together in a dark matter halo, just a smaller version of large galaxies, but no. There are a numb
Personally, this "big science" idea doesn't appeal to me at all. I'd much rather potter away in a corner on my own things. Which require me to program well.
ReplyDeleteBut you have big science papers - with monitoring of quasars for reverberation mapping!
DeleteTouche. :) They aren't the ones that I identify myself with, but they are some of the most cited.
DeleteAh! So, you outsource your Big Science! :)
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