Undergraduate Laboratories in Optical and Radio Astronomy

光学和射电天文学本科实验室

• 批准号: 9352613
• 负责人: James Cordes
• 金额: $ 1.27万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-08-15 至 1995-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9352613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Laboratories; Optical; Radio; Astronomy

9352613 Cordes The project involves upgrading a lab course in astronomy that gives students the opportunity to work with state of the art optical and radio astronomy equipment. Work to be done includes the upgrade of existing equipment to improve performance and allow experiments and observations to be performed more efficiently and purchase and construction of new equipment to allow new kinds of observations on astrophysical masers and neutron stars. The signal processing component of the course is being strengthened considerably. Students are able to measure neutral hydrogen from neighboring galaxies for comparison with the rotation curve of our own galaxy. In pulsar observations, students learn about time-transfer technology, dispersive propagation in plasmas, and the rotations of neutron stars. Maser observations teach students about coherent radiation mechanisms. Students are taking part in some of the construction of new equipment, interfacing of equipment to computers, and writing of software. ***

9352613 Cordes 该项目涉及升级天文学实验课程，使学生有机会使用最先进的光学和射电天文学设备。需要完成的工作包括升级现有设备以提高性能并更有效地进行实验和观测，以及购买和建造新设备以对天体物理微波激射器和中子星进行新型观测。该课程的信号处理部分正在得到显着加强。学生能够测量邻近星系的中性氢，以便与我们自己星系的旋转曲线进行比较。在脉冲星观测中，学生学习时间传递技术、等离子体中的色散传播以及中子星的旋转。 微波激射观测让学生了解相干辐射机制。学生们正在参与一些新设备的建造、设备与计算机的连接以及软件的编写。 ***