Construction and Operation of a Speckle Interferometer in the Southern Hemisphere

南半球散斑干涉仪的建造和运行

• 批准号: 9312148
• 负责人: William Van Altena
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Yale Southern Observatory, Inc.
• 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: 1993-10-15 至 1997-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9312148&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Construction; Operation; Speckle; Interferometer; Southern

9312148 Van Altena This award will fund the construction of a Speckle Interferometer and station it at the Cesco Observatory of the Yale Southern Observatory and the University of San Juan at El Leoncito, Argentina. The purpose of this instrument is to rectify the large imbalance in the hemispheric distribution of modern observations of close visual binaries. The new observations, in combination with those from the pioneering work of Finsen, will lead to a significant improvement in the knowledge of the lower part of the mass luminosity relation. Improved masses can provide needed constraints to stellar structure and evolution calculations and their comparison with observations. ***

9312148 Van Altena该奖项将资助建造散斑干涉仪，并将其安装在耶鲁大学南方天文台的Cesco天文台和阿根廷圣胡安大学埃尔莱昂西托。该仪器的目的是纠正现代近视双星观测在半球分布上的巨大不平衡。这些新的观测结果，与芬森的开创性工作相结合，将大大改善人们对质量光度关系较低部分的认识。改进的质量可以为恒星结构和演化计算以及它们与观测结果的比较提供必要的约束。***