Speaker
Description
SALT is the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere and has been in routine operations for 15 years. It is an international collaboration with eight shareholder partners based in four continents. The partnership has evolved over the years, and I will highlight current opportunities for African astronomers to become operations partners in SALT. SALT is a fully queue observed, general purpose telescope which is ideally suited for time domain or survey observations. An example of this is my program to get high resolution spectra, and determine abundances of RR Lyrae stars. This survey of variable stars has led to a rich array of studies on the calibration of RR Lyrae stars as distance indicators and the structure of our Milky Way galaxy and its nearby satellite galaxies.
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