Laura Watkins - Personal Profiles
Laura Watkins
Main Research Fields
- Internal kinematics of globular clusters.
- Discrete dynamical modelling of stellar systems, particularly using Jeans models.
- Proper-motion measurements from Hubble and Gaia.
- Mass profiles of dwarf galaxies.
- Globular clusters and dwarf galaxies as tracers of their host galaxies.
Keywords
- Astrometry
- Dynamical Modelling
- Globular Clusters
- Local Group Galaxies
- Proper Motions
- Stellar Kinematics
Ongoing collaborations
- HSTPROMO (http://www.stsci.edu/~marel/hstpromo.html)
- Gaia Challenge (http://astrowiki.ph.surrey.ac.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php)
- Roeland van der Marel (STScI)
- Glenn van de Ven (Vienna)
Publications
Project/mission at ESA
Hubble Space Telescope