Infrared Camera Enhancement

该奖项提供资金，以提供现有的近红外 相机与国家的最先进的焦平面阵列探测器。 的 仪器的建立是为了确保天文学家在 华盛顿卡内基研究所（OCIW） 拥有最好的近红外阵列相机， 在1和2.5 μ m之间。 OCIW是一个合作伙伴， 与罗克韦尔科学中心签订了一份合同， 碲镉汞阵列探测器 这笔资金将主要用于 硬件项目-探测器，一些电子产品，和一个 电脑 OCIW将支付所有需要的工资， 完成这个项目。 主要的科学计划将与相机进行 在未来几年内，主要关注的是一项长期研究， 星系团中遥远星系的恒星种群，直接 年轻恒星天体周围的成像， 高红移（z ~ 2）射电星系，和 造父变星

This award supplies funding to provide an existing near-infrared camera with state-of-the art focal plane array detectors. The instrument was built to ensure that astronomers at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (OCIW) have the best possible near-infrared array camera for general use between 1 and 2.5 um. OCIW is a partner is a consortium that has a contract with the Rockwell Science Center to produce a series of HgCdTe array detectors. The funding will be used mostly for hardware items -- the detectors, some electronics, and a computer. OCIW will cover all the salary money needed to complete this project. The major scientific programs to be carried out with the camera in the next several years concern primarily a long-term study of stellar populations in distant galaxies in clusters, direct imaging of the environs of Young Stellar Objects, morphologies of high redshift (z 2) radio galaxies, and infrared photometry of Cepheids.