Astronomical Instrumentation and Development

天文仪器与开发

• 批准号: 8922092
• 负责人: Carlton Pennypacker
• 金额: $ 24.9万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-05-01 至 1997-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8922092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Astronomical; Instrumentation; Development

The Berkeley Automated Supernova Search has passed its proof of concept. This award will build a powerful, new scientific tool by locating the search at a remote site with a darker sky, better seeing, and better weather than the present location. Combining this with a new CCD and a faster computer, will increase the sensitivity for finding supernovae to 20th magnitude and decrease the processing time per image from seventy to thirty seconds. Funding for a telescope, a CCD camera, a building, and the necessary computers has already been obtained. This award will cover the deployment and testing of the new remote search. The scientific goals of the search are to find supernovae at the earliest possible time and to find a large number of supernovae for statistical purposes. Finding supernovae early and following them up with light curves and spectra will aid theorists who study the mechanism of supernova explosions and aid in the study of supernovae as distance indicators. Supernova statistics (in particular the supernova rate in galaxies) provides information about galaxy composition and evolution as well as the structure, kinematics, and composition of the interstellar medium.

伯克利自动超新星搜索已经通过了它的证明， 概念. 该奖项将建立一个强大的，新的科学工具， 将搜索定位在天空较暗的偏远地点， 看，比现在的天气更好。 结合 这与一个新的CCD和更快的计算机，将增加 发现超新星的灵敏度降低到20等 每张图像的处理时间从七十秒到三十秒。 为望远镜、CCD照相机、建筑物和 目前，已经配备了必要的计算机。 这个奖项将 介绍新的远程搜索的部署和测试。 搜寻的科学目标是在地球上找到超新星。 在尽可能短的时间内找到大量的超新星， 统计目的。 及早发现超新星并跟踪它们 光变曲线和光谱将有助于理论家研究 超新星爆发的机制，并帮助研究 超新星作为距离指示器。 超新星统计（在 特别是星系中的超新星速率）提供了信息 关于星系的组成和演化以及结构， 运动学和星际介质的组成。