Science Coordination Office for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica

该奖项支持南极天体物理研究科学协调办公室（SCOARA）促进NSF和科学界之间的智力伙伴关系，以实现最高质量和效率，支持美国阿蒙森-斯科特南极站的天体物理研究。提供的资金仅用于促进下文概述的协调、维护共用科学设备和运行机械车间，以满足科学项目和空间站的需要。没有为调查员个人赠款所涵盖的活动提供资金。SCOARA由参与空间站宇宙学和天体物理学项目的主要研究人员组成，将使科学家们能够共同努力：（a）为经批准的南极黑暗区科学项目提供社区组织、协调和专家共享的科学支持，（B）为共享的黑暗区机械车间配备装备和人员，（d）提供各项目之间共享的专家科学winterrover支持，（e）为主要研究者或其指定人员举行每周电话会议，以解决以下问题：与南极科学项目有关的现有和新出现的问题，以及（f）教育、组织和协调社区，以回应关于南极有限支持资源的讨论。关于更广泛的影响，拟议的科学协调办公室将侧重于在社区中促进美国南极天文学和天体物理学方案在现代科学前沿保持全球领导地位的目标。SCOARA将对理解世界天文界如何将观测扩大到南极洲的地点产生影响，那里的观测条件可能比南极更好。此外，SCOARA将使新的天体物理学项目（例如，从NSF获得新资金的项目）开始在南极的运作。这对于通常与年轻研究人员有关的小型项目特别有用。最后，该委员会在处理教育和公共宣传问题方面也有明显的优势，相对于单个项目可能单独进行的努力，它更适合围绕一个共同主题组织宣传活动。

This award supports a Science Coordination Office for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (SCOARA) to facilitate an intellectual partnership between the NSF and scientific community with the goal of achieving maximum quality and efficiency for the support of astrophysical research at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Funds are provided only to facilitate the coordination outlined below, maintain shared scientific equipment, and operate the machine shop to meet the needs of the science projects and the station. No funds are provided for activities that are covered by the individual investigator grants. The SCOARA, comprised of principal investigators involved in cosmology and astrophysics projects at the station, will enable the scientists to work together for: (a) providing community organization, coordination, and expert sharing of scientific support for approved South Pole Dark Sector science projects, (b) outfitting and staffing the shared Dark Sector machine shop, (c) keeping the shared scientific equipment at the Pole in good working order, (d) providing expert science winterover support shared among the projects, (e) conducting weekly teleconferences for Principal Investigators or their designees to address on-going and emerging issues related to the science projects at the Pole, and (f) educating, organizing, and coordinating the community in response to discussions about the limited support resources at the South Pole. With respect to the broader impacts, the proposed Science Coordination Office will focus on fostering, amongst the community, the goal of maintaining worldwide leadership, at the cutting edge of modern science, of the U.S. Antarctic astronomy and astrophysics programs. SCOARA will have an impact on understanding how the worldwide astronomical community might expand observations to sites in Antarctica where observing conditions might be even better than at South Pole. In addition, SCOARA would make it easier for new astrophysics projects (e.g., projects that receive new funding from NSF) to begin their operations at South Pole. This will be especially useful for smaller projects that are often associated with younger investigators. Finally, SCOARA also has obvious advantages for addressing education and public outreach issues, being better suited to organize outreach around a common theme relative to the efforts that individual projects could make separately.