Undergraduate Laboratories in Optical and Radio Astronomy

9352613科德斯该项目包括升级一门天文学实验室课程，让学生有机会使用最先进的光学和射电天文设备。要做的工作包括升级现有设备，以提高性能，使实验和观测能够更有效地进行，以及购买和建造新设备，以便能够对天体物理脉泽和中子星进行新型观测。该课程的信号处理部分正在得到相当大的加强。学生们能够测量邻近星系的中性氢，以便与我们自己星系的自转曲线进行比较。在脉冲星观测中，学生学习时间转移技术、等离子体中的色散传播和中子星的自转。脉泽观测向学生传授相干辐射机制。学生们正在参与一些新设备的建造，设备与计算机的接口，以及软件的编写。***

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. ***