Star Formation Study at UC Riverside

该奖项是在美国国家科学基金会（NSF）教师早期职业发展（Career）计划的主持下颁发的。作为一名CAREER奖获得者，除了她的科学研究项目外，研究者还需要积极地开展教育计划。了解恒星的形成方式对理解从行星系统到宇宙大尺度结构的所有尺度的恒星系统的形成都有很大的影响。Barsony将从三个角度研究恒星形成——确定恒星形成的初始条件，描述最早可观测到的原恒星状态，并试图理解导致分子云碎裂的机制，从而形成星团。这些项目依赖于广泛波长范围的观测——毫米、亚毫米和近红外。教育计划包括为本科生和研究生开设新的课程：天体物理学和恒星天文学，包括天体物理学的辐射过程、天体物理流体动力学和当前天体物理学研究读物。此外，还将建立一个本科物理计算设施，以便计算机可以直接融入本科物理课程的教学中。＊＊＊

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. ***