Bring One Get One at Gemini South

As a participant in the “Bring One, Get One” Student Support Program, Dylan Angell, a first year PhD student at the University of Virginia (US), is currently participating in observations at the Gemini South telescope.

Dylan’s main research interest is in Galactic structures, and his primary goal is to train at one of the world’s leading observatories. His participation in observations at Gemini South is part of the “Large and Long” program GS-2014B-LP-2. The program’s principal investigator, and senior observer, Dr. Tobias Fritz is a postdoc at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Fritz’s program uses GeMS/GSAOI to study proper motions for a variety of “tracers” (stars in dwarf galaxies and globular clusters) in the Milky Way ‘s halo, which his team hopes will help further constrain our galaxy’s shape and total mass.