Design of Infrared Array Camera for Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory

妇女研究机会计划下的这项计划拨款将帮助首席研究人员将她的研究活动转向红外天文学，她在高能物理仪器方面有经验。她将开始为1.3米和2.4米望远镜设计红外阵列相机，该望远镜由密歇根大学、达特茅斯大学和麻省理工学院联合运营。该相机工作在1-2.5微米范围内，将用于研究极低质量恒星，搜索形成过程中的星系，并研究活动星系的核。

This planning grant under the Research Opportunities for Women program will assist the Principal Investigator, whose experience has been in instrumentation for high energy physics, in switching her research activities into infrared astronomy. She will begin the design of an infrared array camera for the 1.3 meter and 2.4 meter telescopes, operated jointly by Michigan, Dartmouth, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The camera, operating in the 1-2.5 micron region, would be used to study very low mass stars, to search for galaxies in the process of formation, and to study the nuclei of active galaxies.