NASA’s Astrophysics Theory Program (ATP) has awarded our team
- PI Andrew Wetzel
- co-investigators Robyn Sanderson, Sarah Loebman, Shea Garrison-Kimmel
a grant for Modeling Galactic Archaeology of the Milky Way. Kudos in particular to Robyn Sanderson, who led a significant component of our science case. Our primary goal with this grant is to turn our Latte suite of FIRE-2 simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies into synthetic star catalogs and mock surveys of the Milky Way, and make these datasets publically available, to provide theoretical predictions and tools for the many surveys of the Milky Way, including the Gaia satellite.