To finish the year, In December 2022, ERIS members managed to meet in the last country where we’re based: Australia. We had the chance to mingle and work! Paula Jofre, the ERIS director, travelled as part of the “Mt. Stromlo Distinguished visitor programme”, which invites researchers from abroad to visit the Australian National University (ANU). …
The Núcleo Milenio ERIS, together with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) hosted a workshop entitled “Extending the Gaia Benchmark stars” throughout November. From the 14th until the 18th of the last month and thanks to the collaboration between Ditte Slumstrup and Paula Jofré, it was possible to bring together a team of experts to work …
The Co-director of the ERIS Millennium Nucleus and astrophysicist, Patricia Tissera, was announced during the month of August with the award of the Charreau Prize. This award was created in 2020, with the dual purpose of paying tribute to a notable figure in Ibero-American science and rewarding the scientific production and cooperation of researchers in …
Gaia is a space observatory launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) whose mission is to create a detailed map of the Milky Way, revealing secrets of the birth, structure and evolution of it, as well as some aspects of the inner workings of the stars. Gaia has as its goal to capture information from …
Anell Cornejo Cárdenas and Danielle de Brito Silva obtained the scholarship from the National Research and Development Agency (ANID in Spanish), an institution responsible for the management and execution of research programs and instruments in all fields that promote, encourage and develop knowledge, technology and innovate in science based on policies by the Ministry of …
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Summer holidays in Chile are quite long, at least for the schools and universities. They start around Christmas and last for January and February. March is then a crazy month, the streets of Santiago become full with people and cars, music and all sorts of sounds. All activities that were pending in summer happen in …
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ERIS celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science Work done by ERIS members gets highlighted by ESA as part of the Gaia Women in Science image of the week of 2022 to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The story begins with promoting the book “Fosiles del cosmos” written …
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The “Millennium Nucleus for the Evolutionary Reconstruction of the InterStellar medium” (ERIS) invites applications for two 2-year postdoctoral positions in Santiago, Chile, with possible extension depending on funding. The first position is to work on galactic chemical evolution and galaxy mergers, and the second position is to work on stellar populations of the Milky Way. …
Phylogenetic signal in spectroscopic surveys. One of the main motivations to generate large spectroscopic surveys of Milky Way stars is to study the structure, formation and evolution of the Milky Way. There are several spectroscopic surveys available to the community today. We are very curious to analyze trees from such datasets and discover the past …
What do phylogenetic trees tell us about the merging history of the Milky Way? Building trees from stars living in the galactic halo might provide us with novel and interesting insights about the merging history of the Milky Way. We choose the galactic halo because its stellar content is made of stars of different origins …
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