McMaster astrophysicist Gwendolyn Eadie, working with her PhD supervisor William Harris and with a Queen’s University statistician, Aaron Springford, has refined Eadie and Harris’s own method for measuring the mass of the galaxy that is home to our solar system.
It is a galactic challenge, to be sure, but Gwendolyn Eadie is getting closer to an accurate answer to the question that has defined her early career in astrophysics: what is the mass of the Milky Way?