Date:
Thursday, March 11, 2021, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Zoom
"Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics in the Gaia Era: A New Understanding of Local Stellar Populations "
We begin with an overview of the precision stellar astrophysics enabled by the confluence of Gaia parallaxes with large-scale photometric and spectroscopic surveys. We then give examples of the new understanding of local Galactic structure that this has enabled, including in particular the detailed history of canonical star-forming regions, and the discovery of "stellar strings" reflecting the local conditions of recent star formation.