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Astrophysics Seminars

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am (unless otherwise noted). They will be held in Bloomberg Lecture Hall and virtually through zoom. If an event was recorded, you can find it posted at ias.edu/videos under Natural Sciences. 

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Astrophysics Seminar Archives

May
02
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Testing Galaxy Formation Models with Large-scale Surveys of the Milky Way Stellar Halo
Emily Cunningham
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

While the vast majority of the light from our galaxy comes from the Galactic disk, the vast majority of the mass of the Milky Way (MW) is in its dark matter halo. Because we cannot directly observe the MW's dark matter halo, we must use luminous...