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#SAGATeamCAMK 🔭🌟 Research group on Stellar Abundances and Galactic Archaeology. We explore the secrets of the #MilkyWay using stellar chemical abundances.
#astronomy #astrophysics #research #science #stars

https://linktr.ee/saga.team
📣 The second issue of the WST Chronicle is out!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zmd3m...

📄 The WST Chronicle is an electronic magazine designed to keep the WST science teams and the broader scientific community updated on the latest developments of the project

🔭 ☄️ #stellarastro #galactic #instrumentation
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
⚠️ "Krytyczna sytuacja finansowa CAMK PAN: Instytut naukowy płaci za błędy państwa sprzed dekad

www.camk.edu.pl/pl/archiwum/...

#Nauka #Polska
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🔭 New paper of the @sagateam.bsky.social accepted in A&A!

This is the first paper of the upcoming "Playing CHESS with stars" series!

The paper was lead by John Martínez Fernández and Sergen Özdemir, Ph.D. students at the SAGA Team

arxiv.org/abs/2509.19443

#stellarastro #SagaTeamCAMK
October 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (HRMOS) has a new webpage:

www.hrmos.eu

HRMOS will be proposed as a new instrument for the Very Large Telescope of ESO as part of the VLT2030 roadmap

It will combine very high-resolution (80k), >50 multiplex, and high RV precision

#instrumentation 🔭
August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🔭 ☄️ #stellarastro #galactic #instrumentation

🤩First issue of the WST Chronicle

www.wstelescope.com/wst-chronicle

📰 The WST Chronicle is an electronic magazine designed to keep the WST science teams and the broader scientific community updated on the latest developments of the project
June 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🚨New paper alert! 🔭☄️🧪

📄 The paper entitled: "Discovery of a pair of very metal-poor stars enriched in neutron-capture elements: The proto-disk r-II star BPS CS 29529-0089 and the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus r-I star TYC 9219-2422-1" was accepted for publication in A&A

See:
arxiv.org/abs/2503.04926
March 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
☄️ "Probing the Origins I: Generalised Additive Model inference of birth radii for Milky Way stars in the solar vicinity" has been accepted for publication in A&A!

See: arxiv.org/abs/2502.20441

The paper is led by Maria Luiza L. Dantas, Universidad Católica, Chile, former postdoc at the SAGA Team!
March 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🔭 Special Session 7 at the Annual Meeting of the EAS is about "WST: the Wide-field spectroscopic facility"

eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

WST is planned to be a 12m telescope with 3 sq. degree FoV fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy!

#Astrophysics #Stars #Instrumentation
February 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🔭 Special Session 44 at the EAS Annual Meeting 2025 will discuss: "The HRMOS instrument: very high spectral resolution combined with multi-object capabilities"

eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

Abstract Submission is open! Deadline: 3 March 2025

#stars #astrophysics #milkyway #SAGATeamCAMK
February 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🔭 Symposium S1 at the EAS Annual Meeting 2025 will be all about the Gaia mission:

"Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: Anticipating the Leap in Understanding of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way with Gaia DR4"

eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

Abstract submission is open! Deadline: 3 March 2025
February 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🔭 New project on stellar abundances of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, funded by a DAINA grant, has started!

mao.tfai.vu.lt/cno

In this project, we will study the abundances of C, N, and O in a large set of stars that belong to all stellar populations of the Milky Way

#SAGATeamCAMK #Astrophysics
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🔭 61 Cygni to mark the end of Gaia's science observation phase!

January 15th, 2025, marks the end of Gaia's observation phase.

Read more here:
cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow...

Image credits: Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

#ESAGaia #GaiaMission #GaiaDPAC #SAGATeamCAMK
January 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🔭🌟Join the #SAGATeamCAMK - We are #hiring (again)!

A 3-year postdoc position is open to work on a comprehensive study of CNO abundances in Milky Way stars.

Deadline is January 10th!

www.camk.edu.pl/en/archiwum/...

#astrojob #astrophysics #postdoc #Research
December 13, 2024 at 11:41 AM
🔭 "The European Union Funds the Conceptual Study of the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope"

On Nov. 4th, the contract was signed to fund the conceptual study of the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST), which could become operational in Chile after 2040

See:
www.camk.edu.pl/en/archiwum/...
November 25, 2024 at 12:56 PM
The Ph.D. student Sergen Özdemir presented preliminary results of an investigation of stars in globular clusters, using Gaia and UVES spectra. The general principles of the CHESS pipeline were presented by the P.I. of the team.
November 24, 2024 at 1:10 PM
🔭 Last week two members of the SAGA Team attended the #IAUS395 "Stellar populations in the Milky Way and beyond" at the beautiful city of Paraty in Brazil.

#SAGATeamCAMK
November 24, 2024 at 1:10 PM
🔭🧪 We are hiring!

One postdoctoral position is available at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, in Warsaw, Poland, to work on a comprehensive spectroscopic study of metal-poor stars. See details here:

www.camk.edu.pl/pl/archiwum/...

Deadline is December 6th, 2024

#astrojob
November 7, 2024 at 9:00 AM
🔭 The Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope - a future 12m spectroscopic survey telescope that will be equipped with a multi-object spectrograph of 20,000 fibers and also a giant 3×3 arcmin2 integral field spectrograph!

Read the latest news about WST in an SPIE proceedings:
dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3...
September 30, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Last week we said #welcome to a new #teammember! Dr. Deepak joins the SAGA Team for a postdoc. See here for his ORCID:

lnkd.in/dQQaHeHx

Deepak has a PhD degree in #astrophysics obtained in 2023 at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Reddy
September 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
🔭 CUBES is moving towards final design review!

CUBES is a new near-UV (300-400 nm) high-efficiency spectrograph being developed for the 8m VLT of ESO.

The latest news are in a proceedings to the SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024

users.camk.edu.pl/rsmiljanic/n...
August 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
🔭 🌟 S-PLUS Ultra Short Survey: Searching the Milky Way for bright metal-poor stars

users.camk.edu.pl/rsmiljanic/c...

#SAGATeamCAMK #Researchpaper
August 23, 2024 at 9:23 AM
🔭🧪 New #ESAGaia Image of the Week dedicated to "Dynamical masses across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram"

cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow...

The mass of a star is the main parameter that dictates how it evolves. Here, Gaia data helps to measure stellar masses in resolved wide binary stars.
June 25, 2024 at 11:41 AM
🔭🧪 The wide-field spectroscopic telescope (WST) is planned new 12-metre telescope dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy

In 5 years of operation, it would target 250 million galaxies, 25 million stars at low resolution, plus 2 million stars at high resolution

See more in:
arxiv.org/abs/2405.12518
May 23, 2024 at 11:50 AM
🔭🧪 In the SAGA Team, among other research activities, we are 'Playing CHESS with stars'! The webpage describing our CHESS project is now on-line:

users.camk.edu.pl/rsmiljanic/c...

#SAGATeamCAMK #astrophysics #science #research #openscience

(Composition of 2 images; Credit of the originals: ESO)
April 25, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Today's #Astronomy Picture of the Day is the Carina Nebula!

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24041...

This large star forming region hosts several open clusters and associations of young stars. Stars in the Carina Nebula were observed as part of the #GaiaESO Spectroscopic Survey

#SAGATeamCAMK
April 19, 2024 at 8:17 AM