{"id":114804,"date":"2020-11-18T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ai-helps-create-the-milky-ways-family-tree-tracking-eons-of-galactic-mergers\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:57:27","slug":"ai-helps-create-the-milky-ways-family-tree-tracking-eons-of-galactic-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-helps-create-the-milky-ways-family-tree-tracking-eons-of-galactic-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"#AI helps create the Milky Way\u2019s family tree \u2014 tracking eons of galactic mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#AI helps create the Milky Way\u2019s family tree \u2014 tracking eons of galactic mergers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Astrophysicists have used AI to reconstruct the first complete family tree of the Milky Way\u00a0\u2014 and discover perhaps the biggest collision in the galaxy\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The researchers unraveled these mysteries by analyzing the globular clusters that orbit our galaxy. These\u00a0clusters can contain up to a million ancient stars. The Milky Way hosts over 150 of them, many of which were formed in smaller galaxies before merging to shape our own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main challenge of connecting the properties of globular clusters to the merger history of their host galaxy has always been that galaxy assembly is an extremely messy process, during which the orbits of the globular clusters are completely reshuffled,\u201d said<\/a> researcher\u00a0Dr Diederik Kruijssen of the University of Heidelberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make sense of the complex system that is left today, we therefore decided to use artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team first developed simulations of the formation of\u00a0Milky Way-like galaxies, which included models for the formation, evolution, and destruction of globular clusters.<\/p>\n

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They used these \u201cE-Mosaic\u201d<\/span>\u00a0simulations to connect the ages, chemical compositions, and orbital motions of globular clusters to the properties of the galaxies where they formed. You can watch a video of one of the simulations below:
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