Star Formation Study at UC Riverside

Barsony 9501788该奖项是在美国国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展(Career)计划的赞助下颁发的。作为一名职业获奖者，调查人员除了她的科学研究项目外，还应该追求积极的教育计划。了解恒星是如何形成的，对于理解所有尺度的恒星系统的形成，从行星系统的形成到宇宙的大尺度结构都有很大的影响。巴松尼将从三个角度研究恒星的形成--确定恒星形成的初始条件，表征最早的观测可识别的原恒星状态，并试图了解导致分子云碎裂从而形成星团的机制。这些项目依赖于对广泛波长--毫米、亚毫米和近红外--的观测。该教育计划包括为本科生和研究生开发新的课程：天体物理学和恒星天文学，包括天体物理学中的辐射过程、天体物理流体动力学和当前天体物理研究的读数。此外，还将建立一个本科生物理计算设施，以便计算机可以直接融入本科生物理课堂的教学。***

Barsony 9501788 This award is made under the auspices of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program. As a CAREER awardee the investigator is expected to pursue an active education plan in addition to her scientific research project. Understanding how stars form has great ramifications for understanding formation of stellar systems at all scales, from planetary system formation through large-scale structure of the Universe. Barsony will study star formation from three perspectives -- to determine the initial conditions for star formation, to characterize the earliest observationally recognizable protostellar state, and to try to understand the mechanisms leading to molecular cloud fragmentation and thus the formation of star clusters. These projects rely on observations over a broad range of wavelengths -- millimeter, submillimeter, and near infrared. The education plan includes developing new courses: Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy for undergraduates and graduate classes including Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics and Readings from Current Astrophysics Research. Also an undergraduate physics computing facility will be set up so that computers can be directly integrated into the teaching of undergraduate physics classes. ***