CAREER: Tools for Training Students in Astronomical Instrumentation and Research

该奖项支持一项职业发展计划，该计划将把生产和使用最先进天文仪器的研究项目与北卡罗来纳大学(UNC)培养观测天文学研究生和本科生的使命结合起来。主要的教育目标是在5年内开发一套教学硬件和软件工具，使观测天文学专业的学生能够通过使用工作仪器和简化软件进行直接实验来加深他们的理解。第二个目标是资助研究生和本科生参与正在进行的涉及生产新的和创新的天文仪器的研究项目。该奖项提供的资金也将支持涉及创新仪器的正在进行的研究项目。这些包括对白矮星的地震学研究和对较低主序列为质量-半径关系的调查。前者将使用北卡罗来纳大学在建的最先进的光谱仪，第二个将使用已经建造和部署的自动望远镜和照相机。这两个项目都让研究生参与天文仪器的开发。

This award supports a career development plan that will integrate research programs that produce and use state-of -the-art astronomical instrumentation with University of North Carolina's (UNC) mission to train graduate and undergraduate students in observational astronomy. The main educational objective is to develop, over a 5 year period, a set of pedagogical hardware and software tools that will allow students in observational astronomy to deepen their understanding through direct experimentation with working instrumentation and reduction software. The second objective is to fund graduate and undergraduate student participation in ongoing research programs that involve producing new and innovative astronomical instrumentation.Funds provided in this award will also support ongoing research programs that involve innovative instrumentation. These include seismological studies of white dwarf stars and investigations of the mass-radius relation on the lower main sequence. The former will make use of the state-of-the-art spectrograph under construction at UNC and the second will employ an automated telescope and camera already built and deployed. Both of these projects involve graduate students in the development of astronomical instrumentation.