Lifting the Veil: A Multiwavelength Picture of the Galactic Plane and of its Stellar Remnants

ast - 0602099 -阿奎罗,MarcelDr。阿奎罗斯获得了美国国家科学基金会天文学和天体物理学博士后奖学金，在哥伦比亚大学开展研究和教育项目。他将把新的多阵列银河平面成像调查（MAGPIS）与现有的调查联系起来，构建一个详细的、多波长的银河平面图像，并探索其超新星遗迹和脉冲星的数量。MAGPIS是一个非常大阵列（VLA）的无线电测量，其灵敏度，分辨率和动态范围比以往任何可用的都要大一个数量级。Agueros还将通过与哥伦比亚大学科技入学计划等项目合作，为学生开发一系列天文学讲座，吸引传统上代表性不足的高中生。他还将参加由美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH）组织的教师培训活动。阿奎罗斯博士的推广项目建立在他与纽约市几个组织建立的关系以及他以前的工作基础上，以了解和解决“管道泄漏”问题，这种问题阻碍了许多来自代表性不足人群的学生追求高等教育和天文学职业。

AST-0602099Agueros, MarcelDr. Agueros is awarded an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a program of research and education at Columbia University. He will correlate the new Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS) with existing surveys to construct a detailed, multiwavelength picture of the Galactic plane and to explore its population of supernova remnants and pulsars. MAGPIS is a Very Large Array (VLA) radio survey of sensitivity, resolution and dynamic range more than an order of magnitude greater than any previously available.Dr. Agueros will also reach high school students from traditionally underrepresented groups by working with programs such as the Science and Technology Entry Program atColumbia to develop a series of astronomy lectures for their students. He will also participate in teacher-training activities such as those organized by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Dr. Agueros's outreach program builds on relationships that he has developed with several organizations in New York City and on his previous work to understand and address the "leaky pipeline" that prevents many students from underrepresented populations from pursuing higher education and careers in astronomy.