High Resolution Studies of Solar Activity and Space Weather

新泽西理工学院(NJIT)自1997年7月1日以来一直在运营大熊太阳天文台(BBSO)。目前为期三年的NSF赠款从2001年3月1日开始，这笔赠款为BBSO提供了主要的骨干支持。所有人都可以获得BBSO望远镜的时间和数据。在NSF支持的头两年里，天文台已经发表了100多篇科学论文。目前，PI正在为BBSO建造和实施一个高阶自适应光学系统，他已经开始为BBSO建造一个新的1.6米净口径的离轴望远镜。这项拟议的BBSO太阳物理研究三年计划将涵盖太阳第23周的衰变阶段。该计划将强调持续的高分辨率和高节奏的磁场和太阳大气研究--这是BBSO最适合的工作。BBSO工作人员还计划参与仪器开发，以更好地进行拟议的高分辨率和/或高节奏观测。PPI指出，拟议的科学工作可以用目前的BBSO仪器和望远镜来完成，但使用新的仪器和望远镜将产生更多的探测结果。所有正在进行的仪器项目都将在本提案所涉期间之前或更早完成--1.6望远镜项目除外，因为新望远镜要到拟议工作的后期才能完成，这里提议的科学不需要1.6望远镜项目。

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been operating Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) since July 1, 1997. The current three-year NSF grant started on March 1, 2001, and this grant provides primary, backbone support for BBSO. BBSO telescope time and data are available to all. The observatory has produced over 100 scientific papers under the first two years of this NSF support. At present, the PI is building and implementing a high-order adaptive optics system for BBSO, and he has begun to build a new 1.6-m clear aperture, off-axis telescope for BBSO.This proposed three-year program of solar physics research at BBSO would cover the decaying phase of solar cycle 23. The program would emphasize sustained campaigns of high resolution and high cadence studies of magnetic fields and the solar atmosphere - efforts for which BBSO is ideally suited. BBSO staff also plans to engage in instrument development to better carry out the proposed high resolution and/or high cadence observations. The PI notes that the scientific work proposed can be done with the current BBSO instrumentation and telescope, but would yield more probing results with the new instrumentation and telescope. All on-going instrumentation projects would be completed before, or early in, the period covered by this proposal - except the 1.6 telescope project, which is not required for the science proposed here, because the new telescope would not be completed until late in the period of the proposed work.