Astromomical Research with the Owens Valley Millimeter Interferometer

该奖项是为了继续支持毫米波干涉仪的研究，该干涉仪由位于加利福尼亚州欧文斯谷的加州理工学院运营。首席研究员是毫米波天文学和射电干涉测量领域的世界领导者之一，他领导着世界上最具创造力和生产力的天文学家团队之一。这些工作人员不仅率先将毫米波技术应用于重要的天文问题，而且在技术本身的发展中也发挥了重要作用。在这个奖项下研究的天体范围从我们自己的太阳系到最遥远的星系。利用一氧化碳的吸收特性，首次对火星风进行全球测量有望实现。三元素阵列的高分辨率（很快将扩展到六元素或更多）将允许详细绘制与年轻恒星物体相关的星周结构-可能是正在形成的行星系统。这台仪器的高灵敏度将使哈勃膨胀的宇宙学研究得以扩展，现在经常使用中性氢的21厘米辐射，使用一氧化碳的毫米波长线。这将扩大可以获得高精度红移的星系的范围。

This award is for continuing support of research at the millimeter wave interferometer, operated by the California Institute of Technology in Owens Valley, California. The Principle Investigator, one of the world leaders in millimeter wave astronomy and radio interferometry, directs one of the most creative and productive groups of astronomers in the world. These workers have not only pioneered in the application of millimeter wave technology to important astronomical problems, but have also been instrumental in developing the technology itself. Objects to be investigated under this award range from our own solar system to the most distant galaxies. The first global measurement of Martian winds is expected, using absorption features of carbon monoxide. The high resolution of the three element array (soon to be expanded to six elements or more) will permit detailed mapping of circumstellar structure associated with young stellar objects - possibly planetary systems in the making. The great sensitivity of this instrument will allow the extension of cosmological studies of the Hubble expansion, now frequently conducted with the 21 cm radiation of neutral hydrogen, to the use of the millimeter wavelength lines of carbon monoxide. This will broaden the base of galaxies for which high accuracy red-shifts may be obtained.