Star Formation Study at UC Riverside

加州大学河滨分校的恒星形成研究

• 批准号: 9501788
• 负责人: Mary Barsony
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-15 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9501788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Star; Formation; Study; UC; Riverside

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. ***

Barsony 9501788 该奖项是在 NSF 教师早期职业发展 (CAREER) 计划的赞助下颁发的。 作为职业奖获得者，除了科学研究项目之外，研究者还应该追求积极的教育计划。 了解恒星的形成方式对于理解从行星系统形成到宇宙大尺度结构的所有尺度的恒星系统的形成具有巨大的影响。 巴索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，表征最早可观测到的原恒星状态，并试图了解导致分子云破碎从而形成星团的机制。 这些项目依赖于广泛波长范围的观测——毫米波、亚毫米波和近红外波。 该教育计划包括为本科生和研究生课程开发新课程：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学研究的读物。 还将建立本科物理计算设施，使计算机可以直接融入本科物理课程的教学中。 ***