ABSTRACT
Open clusters provide an ideal laboratory for testing and calibrating our understanding of stellar physics and single stellar population. In this talk, I will discuss how astronomers use open clusters as a well-defined single population of stars to study the Milky Way disk and stellar evolution. Additionally, I will explore how open clusters can be used to validate pipeline results from large photometric and spectroscopic surveys, ensuring that we obtain reliable measurements of stellar properties.
BIO
Dr. Xiaoting Fu is a staff researcher in the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After receiving her Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. Xiaoting worked in the University of Bologna and then the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) as a PostDoc. Xiaoting is mainly working on stars, both theoretically and observationally, including stellar modeling, stellar chemical abundances, stellar clusters, and using stars to study the Galactic chemical evolution. Xiaoting is the science co-leader of the MSE (MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer) Milky Way working group, and is an active member of several large surveys, such as the Gaia-ESO Survey, Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), and MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST).
Host: Song Huang
