POWRE: Visiting Professorship at Harvey Mudd College

摘要- BARSONY研究与工程领域女性职业机会奖（POWRE）将为Harvey Mudd学院物理系提供为期18个月的客座教授。该奖项将允许与Alex Rudolph教授全职合作开发Claremont-Riverside红外摄像机（clrircam -发音为“clear cam”）项目。这次访问将于1998年1月开始。哈维穆德学院是克莱蒙特学院之一，克莱蒙特学院由五所小型学院组成，位于加利福尼亚州克莱蒙特。波莫纳学院（Pomona College）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，由五所学院共同使用。与鲁道夫博士的三年合作包括为该望远镜获得近红外阵列相机。Harvey Mudd学院的power客座教授将负责开发相机的设计规范，开发用于数据获取的软件，包括有效的拼接模式，将相机控制软件与望远镜控制软件集成，开发使用可写cd - rom的有效数据存档系统，以及开发用于光度测定、天体测量、拼接、重新缩放和多色图像组合的IDL数据缩减例程。关于望远镜、仪器的使用，以及使用CLRIRCAM进行数据采集和数据简化的正确步骤，将编制有充分文件的软件和学生手册。波莫纳学院的1.0米望远镜是clricam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，在圣盖博山脉的另一边，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的研究计划包括对黑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团，寻找最年轻的原恒星，以及对可变年轻恒星物体（yso）的频繁和长期监测项目，以阐明流入，流出和磁盘吸积机制。YSO监测项目有可能使我们对与年轻恒星周围环境中气体运动有关的基础物理学的理解取得新的突破，这也可能为行星形成的情况提供一些启示。

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.