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Over ons Praktische zaken Waar vindt u ons prof. dr. E. (Else) Starkenburg

Research interests

My main research interests concern the early history of the Milky Way and surrounding galaxies. I am using both photometric and spectroscopic observations as well as modelling to study these systems. In particular, several of my projects focus on the first generations of stars in these systems that contain valuable information about our Galaxy’s childhood as well as conditions in the early Universe in general. The search for such most pristine (and presumably extremely old) stars has justifiably been compared with finding needles in a haystack as these stars are extremely rare. I am the founder and Principal Investigator for the "Pristine Survey", an international collaboration uncovering and studying these rare earliest generation stars in the Galaxy with unprecedented efficiency and success. The Pristine survey collaboration is an international team of over 30 scientists and the project to date has already resulted in 18 peer-reviewed articles and 5 successful PhD theses, with more in preparation. I am furthermore deeply involved in upcoming and future instrumentation and surveys in my field, for instance as co-lead for one of the ten 4MOST consortium surveys and co-lead for the very metal-poor (early generation) star working group for the WEAVE spectrograph.

Publicaties

ACACIAS I: element abundance labels for 192 stars in the dwarf galaxy NGC 6822

The Pristine survey: XXVI. Chemical abundances of subgiant stars of the extremely metal-poor stream C-19

The Pristine survey: XXV. The very metal-poor Galaxy: Chemodynamics through the follow-up of the Pristine- Gaia synthetic catalogue

Charting the Galactic Acceleration Field. II. A Global Mass Model of the Milky Way from the STREAMFINDER Atlas of Stellar Streams Detected in Gaia DR3

Could very low-metallicity stars with rotation-dominated orbits have been driven by the bar?

Gaia's brightest very metal-poor (VMP) stars: Metallicity catalogue of a thousand VMP stars from Gaia's radial velocity spectrometer spectra

GHOST commissioning science results - II: A very metal-poor star witnessing the early galactic assembly

Improving metallicity estimates for very metal-poor stars in the Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec catalog

Probing the early Milky Way with GHOST spectra of an extremely metal-poor star in the Galactic disc

Reassessing the proper motions of M31/M33 with Gaia DR3: Unravelling systematic uncertainties