The Future of Stellar Populations Studies in the Milky Way and the Local Group
The Future of Stellar Populations Studies in the Milky Way and the Local Group
Abstract The last decade has seen enormous progress in understanding the structure of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies via the production of large-scale digital surveys of the sky like 2MASS and SDSS, as well as specialized, counterpart imaging surveys of other Local Group systems. Apart from providing snaphots of …