Contemporary Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy

当代天文学实验室练习

• 批准号: 0618428
• 负责人: Laurence Marschall
• 金额: $ 49.98万
• 依托单位: Gettysburg College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Contemporary; Laboratory; Exercises; Astronomy

Project CLEA is completing its development of computerized astronomy activities by creating an environment that can easily be adopted by astronomy teachers, not only to perform existing astronomy exercises, but also to design their own. The core of this project is to complete and disseminate VIREO, the Virtual Educational Observatory, a simulated multiwavelength observatory with a wide variety of instrumentation and analysis tools. VIREO, already available in a preliminary version, accesses its own local database to provide the look and feel of operating a variety of earth and space telescopes that can look anywhere in the sky. In its completed version it will also access a wide variety of data, primarily images and spectra, directly though the web, providing an educational gateway to the resources of the emerging virtual research observatories.To accomplish this goal, (1) Project CLEA is completing the programming of VIREO and also designing and implementing a flexible Virtual-observatory Open-source Web Interface (VOWI) that will provide the link between the student software and the internet databases. This architecture, especially its open structure, insures the usefulness of VIREO beyond the duration of this grant. The software is to be accompanied by an extensive student manual and a complete technical guide. (2) Project CLEA is also developing several new astronomy exercises to demonstrate the power of VIREO, including exercises that emphasize observing strategies and current problems in astrophysics such as the search for high-z QSO's and the multi-wavelength imaging of star-forming regions. (3) Project CLEA is carrying on an active program of outreach, disseminating its materials on the web and through the mail. Equally important, it is educating teachers in the use of CLEA materials through workshops at national and regional professional meetings. A summer training workshop on astronomical research techniques for college teachers is scheduled for the Gettysburg College campus in June, 2008, and a training workshop on VIREO for developers of instructional material, in summer 2009.

Clea项目正在完成其计算机化天文活动的开发，创造了一个天文教师可以轻松采用的环境，不仅可以进行现有的天文练习，还可以设计他们自己的天文练习。该项目的核心是完成和传播虚拟教育观测站VEREO，这是一个模拟的多波长观测站，配备了各种仪器和分析工具。Vireo已经有了初步版本，它可以访问自己的本地数据库，提供操作各种地球和空间望远镜的外观和感觉，可以看到天空中的任何地方。在其完成的版本中，它还将直接通过网络访问各种数据，主要是图像和光谱，为新出现的虚拟研究天文台的资源提供一个教育门户。为了实现这一目标，(1)Project Clea正在完成Vreo的编程，并设计和实施一个灵活的虚拟天文台开放源码Web界面(VOWI)，它将在学生软件和互联网数据库之间提供连接。这种架构，特别是它的开放式结构，确保了Vireo在此授予期限后的可用性。该软件将伴随着一本内容广泛的学生手册和一份完整的技术指南。(2)Project Clea还在开发几个新的天文学练习，以展示绿光的力量，包括强调观测策略和天体物理学当前问题的练习，如搜索高z类星体和恒星形成区的多波长成像。(3)Clea项目正在开展一项积极的外联方案，在网上和通过邮件传播其材料。同样重要的是，通过在国家和区域专业会议上举办讲习班，对教师进行使用CLEA材料的教育。计划于2008年6月在葛底斯堡学院校园为大学教师举办天文研究技术暑期培训讲习班，并于2009年夏天为教学材料开发人员举办绿光培训讲习班。