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HERMES – An instrument of the future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Elizabeth Wylie-de Boer  and
Kenneth Freeman
Elizabeth Wylie-de Boer
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, Australia2611 email: ewylie@mso.anu.edu.au, kcf@mso.anu.edu.au
Kenneth Freeman
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT, Australia2611 email: ewylie@mso.anu.edu.au, kcf@mso.anu.edu.au
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Abstract

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HERMES is a new, multi-object high resolution spectrometer for the 3.9m Anglo Australian Telescope, using the existing 2dF positioner. The primary goal of the HERMES survey is to unravel the history of the Galaxy from detailed elemental abundances for about 1.2 million individual stars. The HERMES chemical tagging survey concentrates on the 5000 to 8000 Å window at a resolving power of 30,000 in order to identify dissolved star formation aggregates and ascertain the importance of mergers throughout the history of the Galaxy.

Keywords

instrumentation: spectrographstechniques: spectroscopicsurveysstars: abundancesGalaxy: abundancesGalaxy: evolutionGalaxy: formation
Type
Poster Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S262: Stellar Populations – Planning for the Next Decade , August 2009 , pp. 448 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

References

Freeman, K. C. & Bland-Hawthorn, J. 2002, ARAA, 40, 487CrossRefGoogle Scholar