MAX: a MAssive compression of x^2 for stellar spectra, Paula Jofre (MPA Garching)

Large samples of stars have become of great utility to study the galactic structure and evolution. Statistics of metallicities, temperatures, velocities, etc of field stars are crucial to define different populations of the Milky way and other close galaxies. There are many massive surveys of stars, like Sloan Digital Sky Survey, that are helping to answer the questions of galactic archeology. And now more massive surveys with much better resolution, like APOGEE, GAIA and HERMES will give millions of spectra changing to a complete new era of research. It is therefore a matter of real importance to create efficient tools to analyze these data. Automatic, precise and speed are of the major requirements.  MAX is one of these new tools for spectroscopy.