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predictive model
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About ECOGAL Project

Understanding our Galactic ecosystem : from the disk of the Milky Way to the formation sites of stars and planets

Based on a unique combination of theoretical modeling and multi-wavelengths observations, three fundamental issues :

PLANETS

How do planet-forming disks relate to the Galactic environment?

STARS

What processes regulate the birth of stars?

GALAXY

Can we understand galaxy-scale star formation?

Ambitious programs approved and further data coming.

Demographics of clouds, cores and disks ALMA/NOEMA LPs :
ALMA-IMF (2017), FAUST (2018), CORE (2018), ALMAGAL (2019).

Galaxy scale surveys database integration: :
Hi-GAL, Gaia, SDSS-V, SKA precursors.

Planning key future surveys: JWST.
ALMA Band 2+3 technology for magnetic field & C-N-O isotopic chemistry.

Complete suite of state of the art numerical tools.

Complementary numerical simulation codes :
RAMSES, AREPO

Few 100, 000, 000 of cpu hours.

Post-processing tools to simulate observables :
POLARIS, RADMC

Back-to-back analysis :
simulations vs. data in unique databases Galactica & Vialactea

Research

The first predictive model of the Milky Way : a stepping stone to understand cosmic star formation and exoplanet diversity.

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Patrick Hennebelle

Corresponding PI

CEA, Paris-Saclay (cHI), France

Patrick Hennebelle

Corresponding PI

CEA, Paris-Saclay, France

Ralf S. Klessen

Professor

Heidelberg University, Germany

Ralf S. Klessen

Professor

Heidelberg University, Germany

Sergio Molinari

Professor

INAF Rome, Italy

Sergio Molinari

Professor

INAF Rome, Italy

Leonardo Testi

Professor

European Southern Observatory, Germany

Leonardo Testi

Professor

European Southern Observatory, Germany

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CEA Paris-Saclay - Site de Saclay, D36, 91190 Saclay, France

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