Astronomy with the BIMA Array

AST-96-13998 加州大学伯克利分校。PI：- Blitz AST-96-13999。University of Illinois. PI：- E.斯奈德AST-96-13716。马里兰州大学。PI：- S。沃格尔 天文学与比马阵列 伯克利-伊利诺伊-马里兰州阵列（比马）是一个毫米波干涉仪，目前由9个直径为6米的天线组成;在未来5年内，至少还有两个天线将被添加到阵列中。比马位于伯克利的帽子溪射电天文台，由位于伯克利的加州大学、伊利诺伊大学和马里兰州大学通过国家科学基金会和州政府的联合资助共同投资和共同运营。 这些奖项是为每个机构同时提交的相同提案颁发的，并支持在比马阵列进行的天文学研究、技术开发和学生培训。比马的天文学研究包括对太阳系天体、恒星包层、银河系恒星形成区和外部星系分子云的高分辨率研究。在过去三年中，比马的显著成就包括从6个单元扩展到9个单元，以及阵列基线的扩展，以提供优于0.5角秒的角分辨率。这些技术进步使比马科学家获得了第一张年轻的星周盘的解析图像，并在塞弗特星系NGC 1068的核心发现了分子棒，并证实了星际乙酸的发现。新奖项下的科学计划将主要集中在利用最近实现的更高速度和分辨率的阵列。在技术领域，比马工作人员将集中精力，试图利用总功率波动来消除在长基线上运行时由大气引起的相位波动。

AST-96-13998. University of California at Berkeley. PI: - Blitz AST-96-13999. University of Illinois. PI: - E. Snyder AST-96-13716. University of Maryland. PI: - S. Vogel Astronomy with the BIMA Array The Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Array (BIMA) is a millimeter-wave interferometer presently made up of 9 six-meter diameter antennas; at least two other antennas will be added to the array during the next 5 years. located at Berkeley's Hat Creek Radio Observatory, BIMA was jointly capitalized and is jointly operated by the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois and the University of Maryland through a combination of NSF and State funding. These awards are for identical proposals submitted simultaneously by each institution, and support astronomical research, technological development and student training carried out at the BIMA array. Astronomical research at BIMA includes high resolution studies of solar system objects, stellar envelopes, star-forming regions in the Galaxy, and molecular clouds in external galaxies. Notable accomplishments during the past three years at BIMA include expansion from 6 to 9 elements, and the extension of the array baselines to provide angular resolutions better than 0.5 arcsecond. These technical advancements permitted BIMA scientists to obtain the first resolved image of a young circumstellar disk, and to discover a molecular bar at the core of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068, and to confirm the discovery of interstellar acetic acid. Scientific plans under the new award will focus heavily on exploiting the recently-achieved higher speed and resolution of the array. In the technical domain, BIMA staff will concentrate attempting to use total power fluctuations to remove the phase fluctuations caused by the atmosphere when operating over long baselines.