“Mapping the Milky Way's assembly with data-driven spectroscopy”

I will present the most up to date results for the ages and precision abundances for hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars, derived using the data-driven approach to spectroscopy, The Cannon. The Cannon is a new method for deriving fundamental diagnostics of galaxy formation and as I will show, also an efficient tool to enable data-driven discovery science. With new high precision methodologies like The Cannon to derive information from stellar spectra, combined with the distance and stellar motion measurements that will be delivered by the Gaia mission, we are coming into the era where we have both the data and tools to build the ultimate synthesis of Galactic information. I will highlight recent work that quantifies the prospects for chemical tagging of the Milky Way and discuss the opportunities for understanding our Galaxy's formation in the Gaia era.


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