
Simon Alinder
Doctoral student

I am doing research on Galactic Archeology, using Gaia to reveal the secrets of the Milky way Galaxy.
I am currently working on the phase spiral, a phenomenon where stars in the Milky Way form a spiral pattern when plotted on a Z-V_Z phase space plot.
I am using data from Gaia and APOGEE to investigate the phase spiral and try to determine what it is and where it came from.