{"id":1761,"date":"2025-04-05T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2025-04-06T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:52:12","slug":"mapping-the-stars-unam-astronomers-chart-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/mapping-the-stars-unam-astronomers-chart-the-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Stars: UNAM Astronomers Chart the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"517\">Scientists from UNAM\u2019s Institute of Astronomy (IA) have partnered with collaborators from the <em>Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)<\/em> to produce the most precise map of the Milky Way\u2019s interstellar region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"819\">A central element of the project is the development of the <em>Data Analysis Pipeline<\/em>, a software tool that accurately corrects stellar continuum features and extracts key parameters from emission lines\u2014such as flux, equivalent width, systemic velocity, and velocity dispersion\u2014with remarkable precision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"1128\">Sebasti\u00e1n Francisco S\u00e1nchez S\u00e1nchez, a researcher at the IA and a team member, explained that the project aims to explore the galaxy\u2019s interstellar medium in unprecedented detail. \u201cWe are mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies using a completely new technique,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1130\" data-end=\"1416\">As part of the project, the team captured a large-scale image of the Orion constellation comprising nearly 200,000 individual photographs. The image covers an area hundreds of times larger than the Moon, yet it represents less than one percent of the region they plan to survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1561\">S\u00e1nchez also noted that the IA developed the <em>Data Analysis Pipeline in-house<\/em>. The software was recently featured in <em data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1560\">The Astronomical Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from UNAM\u2019s Institute of Astronomy (IA) have partnered with collaborators from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to produce the most precise map of the Milky Way\u2019s interstellar region. A central element of the project is the development of the Data Analysis Pipeline, a software tool that accurately corrects stellar continuum features and extracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}