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Star formation with Gaia	Closing date: 2016-07-31 Contact: Joao Alves
To capitalize on the University of Vienna involvement in the Gaia mission we are looking for a PhD candidate to work on star formation topics with Gaia. The candidate will work in particular on the characterization of the recently discovered Blue Streams (Bouy & Alves 2015), their origin, and implications for local and global star formation. We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student with a good knowledge of data analysis, visualization, and statistics (preferably with open source tools, e.g., Python, R) and familiarity with astronomical research.
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Gaia is an ambitious ESA mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, with its first data release towards the end of 2016. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy. To capitalize on the University of Vienna involvement in this mission we are looking for a PhD candidate to work of star formation topics with Gaia. The candidate will work in particular on the characterization of the recently discovered Blue Streams (Bouy & Alves 2015), their origin, and implications for local and global star formation . We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student with a good knowledge of data analysis, visualization, and statistics (preferably with open source tools, e.g., Python, R) and familiarity with astronomical research. Review of applications starts July 31th, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications should be sent to Prof. Joao Alves (joao.alves @ univie.ac.at) with 1) a CV that includes a brief description of past research, and 2) the names of two researchers that could be contacted to provide a recommendation. PhD Position Offer 714 submitted on Mon Jun 13 08:00:28 CEST 2016

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