CAREER: Tools for Training Students in Astronomical Instrumentation and Research

职业：天文仪器和研究培训学生的工具

• 批准号: 0094289
• 负责人: James Clemens
• 金额: $ 48.82万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0094289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Tools; Training; Students; Astronomical

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.

该奖项支持一项职业发展计划，该计划将生产和使用最先进的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相结合。主要的教育目标是在5年的时间里开发一套教学硬件和软件工具，使学生能够通过工作仪器和还原软件的直接实验加深对观测天文学的理解。第二个目标是资助研究生和本科生参与正在进行的研究项目，包括生产新的和创新的天文仪器。该奖项提供的资金还将支持涉及创新仪器的正在进行的研究项目。这包括对白矮星的地震学研究和对下主序的质量-半径关系的研究。前者将使用北卡罗来纳大学正在建造的最先进的光谱仪，后者将使用已经建造和部署的自动望远镜和照相机。这两个项目都需要研究生参与天文仪器的开发。