POWRE: Visiting Professorship at Harvey Mudd College

POWRE：哈维穆德学院客座教授

• 批准号: 9731797
• 负责人: Mary Barsony
• 金额: $ 11.42万
• 依托单位: Harvey Mudd College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9731797&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: POWRE; Visiting; Professorship; Harvey; Mudd

ABSTRACT - BARSONY A Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Engineering (POWRE)award will support an 18-month Visiting Professorship at the Physics Department at Harvey Mudd College. This award will allow a full time collaboration with Prof. Alex Rudolph to develop the Claremont-Riverside InfraRed CAMera (CLRIRCAM-pronounced "clearer cam") project. The visit will start in January of 1998. Harvey Mudd College is one of the Claremont Colleges, a group of five small colleges located in Claremont, California. Pomona College, the oldest and largest of the five, owns a 1.0-meter telescope, whose use is shared among the five colleges. A three-year collaboration with Dr. Rudolph involves the acquisition of a near-infrared array camera for this telescope. The POWRE Visiting Professorship at Harvey Mudd College will be spent developing the design specifications for the camera, developing software for data acquisition-including an efficient mosaicing mode, integrating the camera control software with the telescope control software, developing an efficient data archiving system using writeable CD-ROMs, and developing IDL data reduction routines for photometry, astrometry, mosaicing, and re-scaling and combining of multi-color images. Well-documented software, and student manuals on the use of the telescope, the instrument, and on the correct steps for data-taking and data reduction with CLRIRCAM will be produced. The Pomona College 1.0-meter telescope is a superb instrument for the CLRIRCAM project. It is located at Table Mountain Observatory, a high, dry site, at an altitude of 7200 feet, on the other side of the San Gabriel Mountains away from the lights of the Los Angeles basin, making it ideal for near-infrared observations. CLRIRCAM will open up astronomical research opportunities for an entire community, including faculty, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduates from each of the six collaborating institutions. The research plans usi ng CLRIRCAM include systematic large-area multi-color imaging surveys of dark, interstellar molecular clouds to study embedded young stars and star clusters, the search for the youngest protostars, and frequent and long-term monitoring projects of variable young stellar objects (YSOs) to elucidate infall, outflow, and disk accretion mechanisms. The YSO monitoring projects have the potential to lead to new breakthroughs in our understanding of fundamental physics relating to the gas motions in the immediate circumstellar environments of young stars, that may also shed some light on planet formation scenarios.

摘要-巴索尼 研究和工程领域女性职业机会（POWRE）奖将支持哈维穆德学院物理系为期18个月的访问教授职位。 该奖项将允许与Alex Rudolph教授进行全职合作，开发Claremont Riverside的红色摄像机（CLRIRCAM发音为“更清晰的摄像机”）项目。 访问将于1998年1月开始。 哈维穆德学院是克莱蒙学院之一，该学院由五所位于加州克莱蒙的小型学院组成。 波莫纳学院是五所学院中历史最悠久、规模最大的一所，拥有一台1.0米的望远镜，由五所学院共用。 与鲁道夫博士为期三年的合作涉及为该望远镜购买近红外阵列相机。 哈维·穆德学院的POWRE访问教授职位将用于制定相机的设计规格，开发数据采集软件-包括有效的镶嵌模式，将相机控制软件与望远镜控制软件集成，使用可写CD-ROM开发有效的数据存档系统，并开发测光，天体测量，镶嵌，以及重新缩放和组合多色图像。 将制作关于望远镜和仪器使用以及关于利用CLRIRCAM进行数据采集和数据简化的正确步骤的文件齐全的软件和学生手册。 波莫纳学院的1.0米望远镜是CLRIRCAM项目的一个极好的仪器。 它位于桌山天文台，这是一个高而干燥的地方，海拔7200英尺，位于圣加布里埃尔山脉的另一边，远离洛杉矶盆地的灯光，使其成为近红外观测的理想场所。 CLRIRCAM将为整个社区开放天文学研究机会，包括来自六个合作机构的教师，博士后，研究生和本科生。 使用CLRIRCAM的研究计划包括对暗星际分子云进行系统的大面积多色成像调查，以研究嵌入的年轻恒星和星星星团，寻找最年轻的原恒星，以及对可变的年轻恒星天体（YSO）进行频繁和长期的监测项目，以阐明入流，外流和盘吸积机制。YSO监测项目有可能导致我们对与年轻恒星周围环境中气体运动有关的基本物理学的理解取得新的突破，这也可能对行星形成情景有所启发。